Down the Rabbit Hole

January 3, 2020February 5, 2020

Book Club January 2020: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Title: Gone Girl Author: Gillian Flynn Publisher: Broadway Books Page Count: 415 Publication Date: 2014 Category/Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Contemporary Fiction Good Reads Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.06) On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever … Continue reading Book Club January 2020: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

December 24, 2019December 24, 2019

2020 Reading Challenge Overview

Last year I decided to partake in a Reading Challenge to broaden my selections based on genre and general prompts. I noticed from my own experience and in speaking to others that were doing the challenge with me, that author and culture diversity was something that wasn’t addressed and oftentimes inadvertently missing from our selections. … Continue reading 2020 Reading Challenge Overview

December 10, 2019December 10, 2019

Book Review: Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Title: Know My Name Author: Chanel Miller Publisher: Viking Page Count: 368 Publication Date: 2019 Category/Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir, Autobiography, True Crime, Inspiration, Feminism, Good Reads Rating: ★★★★★ (4.81) My Rating: ★★★★★(5) The riveting, powerful memoir of the woman whose statement to Brock Turner gave voice to millions of survivors She was known to the world … Continue reading Book Review: Know My Name by Chanel Miller

December 8, 2019January 18, 2020

November Reading Challenge: A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

As part of the 2019 Reading Challenge I choose A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore for my humor selection. For the uninitiated, Moore is a writer of comic fantasy. His books are playful, amusing and at times even downright absurd. As a great and quirky storyteller, I would say he is on par with Tom … Continue reading November Reading Challenge: A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

December 3, 2019January 5, 2020

Book Club December: Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Title: Little Bee Author: Chris Cleave Publisher: Simon & Schuster Page Count: 275 Publication Date: 2010 Category/Genre: Fiction, Cultural, Africa, Historical Fiction Good Reads Rating: ★★★★☆ (3.71) From the author of the international bestseller Incendiary comes a haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers—one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent … Continue reading Book Club December: Little Bee by Chris Cleave

November 5, 2019January 18, 2020

October Reading Challenge: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

For the 2019 Reading Challenge — a book I picked up a few years ago and also met the requirements of being a Pulitzer Prize-winning book of fiction. It was a hefty book of nearly 800 pages (771 to be exact) but with such lovely prose, intriguing characters and enough plot turns to keep me anxious … Continue reading October Reading Challenge: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

November 3, 2019December 5, 2019

Book Club November: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Title: Breakfast of Champions Author: Kurt Vonnegut Publisher: Dell Publishing Page Count: 303 Publication Date: 1999 Category/Genre: Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Humor, Literature Good Reads Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.07) In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows … Continue reading Book Club November: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut