Tag: nonfiction
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Book Review: The Mythmakers by John Hendrix
I’m more familiar with C.S. Lewis than Tolkien but I never realized that the two of them were friends until I saw this book. I was immediately intrigued…
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Book Review: The Well-Read Life by Marcie Stokman & Colleen Hutt
When life gets busy, reading tends to be one of the first things people give up. ‘Well-Read Mom’ founders Marcie Stokman and Colleen Hutt discuss the importance of reading and why it should be among our top priorities. What’s more, they discuss the impact of taking the time to read a good book (namely literature)…
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Book Review: The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield
Initially, I was surprised to see this written in the third person and I wasn’t sure how I was going to take to it as I’m accustomed to Holocaust memoirs where they’re more like a diary of sorts (if not literally a diary). I’m glad I didn’t let my assumption stop me from adjusting as…
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Book Review: A Pope and a President by Paul Kengor
As soon as I heard about this book I knew it was too intriguing a subject to let sit it on my TBR shelf for any length of time. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect going into it as I’ve never given any thought to which U.S. presidents were in office while Pope John…
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Book Review: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Though this book has caught my eye in bookstores, I went into it somewhat blindly. I knew it involved H.H. Holmes, but I didn’t anticipate everything else it included…
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Book Review: Travels with Stephen by Stephen Gunzenhauser
Right from the subtitle I wanted to learn more about Stephen Gunzenhauser. In this memoir, he discusses his life, career, and background in music. I consider myself a casual fan of classical music and I attend the symphony on occasion so I was curious to learn more from an inside point of view…
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Book Review: House of Kwa by Mimi Kwa
I have been loving multigenerational fiction books over the past couple of years. It never occurred to me to look into multigenerational nonfiction. Stories like this are haunting when shown in fiction and the impact hits even more in a memoir…
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Book Review: The Waltham Murders by Susan Clare Zalkind
This book immediately caught my eye around its release. I have a faint memory of the Waltham murders having grown up in Massachusetts. I was fairly young at the time, so the details are murky and most of what I remember are general comments made by family members. Now as an adult, I was curious…
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Book Review: The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum by Margalit Fox
I’m always curious to learn about different people, places, and periods in history that I have little to no knowledge of. In the case of The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum, I went in with absolutely no foreknowledge. In general, I’m not super well-versed in the era of the 1800s…
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Book Review: The Incredible Life and Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen by Sara Jordan-Heintz
My monumental excitement for this book had me convinced that I was going to devour it in a matter of days. Instead, it exceeded my already high expectations and I found myself waiting for proper reading sessions where I could take my time and jot down annotations along the way…