Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Top Ten Books That Surprised Me Voyage of the DamnedContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Surprised Me”
Tag Archives: Non-Fiction
Book Review: Madness by Sean Baumann
Format: ebookPublished: April 1st, 2020Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – Psychology Rating: 4/5 Stars Sean Baumann worked as a psychiatrist at Valkenberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, and in Madness: Stories of Uncertainty and Hope, he highlights the experiences of his patients, often in their own words, to try and convey the realities of their livedContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Madness by Sean Baumann”
Book Review: You’re History by Lesley Chow
Format: ebookPublished: March 9th, 2021Age: Adult Genre: Non-Fiction – Pop Culture Rating: 5/5 Stars In You’re History, Lesley Chow highlights the female artists who have impacted pop, drawing attention to an overlooked area of cultural criticism. Right from the start, Chow examines the kind of artists who are revered and celebrated, and discusses how othersContinueContinue reading “Book Review: You’re History by Lesley Chow”
Book Review: The Furies: Women, Vengeance and Justice by Elizabeth Flock
Format: ebookPublished: January 9th, 2024Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – True Crime – Social JusticeGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars This book is fantastic, infuriating, upsetting, and inspiring in equal measure. It’s not radical to say we live in a patriarchal world, or to point out women face injustices every single day, while expected to smile and get onContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Furies: Women, Vengeance and Justice by Elizabeth Flock”
Pride Reading 2024
It’s almost that time of the year when we widely celebrate Pride, and over at Divination Hollow we’re busy preparing for our Pride in Horror Month. So for today’s post, I thought I’d highlight just a handful of the books I’ll be reading and reviewing for Pride Month! Because these all fall under the kindContinueContinue reading “Pride Reading 2024”
Book Review: Blitz Spirit: Voices of Britain Living Through Crisis, 1939 – 1945 by Becky Brown
Format: ebookPublished: October 8th, 2020Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – HistoryGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars In Blitz Spirit, Becky Brown has assembled a series of extracts from the Mass Observation project, which tasked ordinary people with writing dairies immediately prior to and during the war years. It’s worth noting that Brown’s bibliography at the end shows there’s aContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Blitz Spirit: Voices of Britain Living Through Crisis, 1939 – 1945 by Becky Brown”
Book Review: A Childhood in a Welsh Mining Valley by Vivian Jones
Format: PaperbackPublished: June 22nd, 2017Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – MemoirGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars I picked this up ages ago for research purposes, and because the blurb made it sound like a great way to find out what life was like in mining valleys towards the start of the 20th century. The mines are such a keyContinueContinue reading “Book Review: A Childhood in a Welsh Mining Valley by Vivian Jones”
Books I’m Excited to Read
I know I do #5OnMyTBR on Mondays, but with the theme for them I usually find myself picking from my whole TBR (aka almost every book I own), so today I thought I’d specifically highlight just some of the reading challenge books that are up next on my TBR. Gay Aliens and Queer Folk: HowContinueContinue reading “Books I’m Excited to Read”
5OnMyTBR: Challenging
#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. This is a really interesting topic, and it’s one that’s a little hard to pinpoint for TBR works, where you might not know if aContinueContinue reading “5OnMyTBR: Challenging”
Book Review: Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Format: ebookPublished: September 3rd, 2020Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – HistoryGoodreads Rating: 3/5 Stars I really wanted to like this one much more than I did. But my reading experience was less because it’s not a great book and more, I think, that I am not the target audience for this. This book is not for moreContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh”
Unwrapping Words 