Give a Girl a Knife by Amy Thielen Setting: Minnesota/New York Length: 10:09 Published on May 16th 2017 Pages: 320 A beautifully written food memoir chronicling one cook’s journey from her rural Midwestern hometown to the intoxicating world of New […]
Trip of the Tongue by Elizabeth Little
The author is a language fanatic. She likes to learn all types of languages. She decided to travel around the United States to find areas where languages other than English are used commonly. She started with a few of the […]
Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
I’ve followed @everydaysexism on Twitter for a while and was always confused by one thing. There are a lot of tweets about street harassment. I haven’t ever seen or experienced that. No one has ever yelled at me in the […]
Review of Tomlinson Hill by Chris Tomlinson
Tomlinson Hill: Sons of Slaves, Sons of Slaveholders by Chris Tomlinson My rating: 3 of 5 stars Nonfiction – audio AP journalist Chris Tomlinson knew that his family had been early settlers in Texas and that they owned a plantation […]
Servants by Lucy Lethbridge
Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth-Century to Modern Times by Lucy Lethbridge My rating: 4 of 5 stars Audio nonfiction 12 hours and 43 minutes For centuries the way of life that is imagined as so typically […]
Idiot America by Charles Pierce
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles P. Pierce My rating: 3 of 5 stars Nonfiction, audio When did being an expert on a subject turn into a liability in public debate? […]
Skin Game by Jim Butcher
Skin Game by Jim Butcher My rating: 4 of 5 stars Urban fantasy, audio Wizard Harry Dresden has been in some rough spots in his life. The roughest was an attempt to save his daughter from death where he was […]
The Greater Journey: Americans In Paris
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough My rating: 4 of 5 stars Nonfiction, audio During the 1800s many Americans moved to France to learn. Some studied art. Some studied medicine. Some were diplomats trying to make sense […]
Just One Damned Thing After Another
Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor My rating: 4 of 5 stars Science fiction – audio When Dr. Lucy Maxwell (Max) interviews for a historian position with St. Mary’s Institute she notices that things aren’t quite right. […]
