Memoir is not a genre I reach for often, but I’ve actually found myself reading a lot of them this summer.
Tag: nonfiction
Book Review: The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Written in 2022 and updated in 2023, it is a book that is very much in dialog with COVID-19 in general, and the US’s response to it in specific.
Book Review: Bad Company by Megan Greenwell
I’m sorry, I just don’t even know if I can properly review this book. Every time I think about private equity, and all the ways the rich can get richer, while the rest of us find that healthcare and safe homes and good jobs and local news are harder and harder to access, I just get so angry.
Book Review: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer
This book is a commitment — the audiobook is 30 hours long! — but it’s so entertaining that it feels a lot more like bingeing a few seasons of a juicy historical drama TV show than cramming for a history exam.
Book Review: Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman
I picked up Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman expecting something as thought-provoking as his previous two works. Instead I got something that felt almost like it could be featured on the If Books Could Kill podcast.
Book Review: Fifty Places to Travel with Your Dog Before You Die by Chris Santella and DC Helmuth
The great thing about that mouthful of a title is it tells you exactly what the book is about.
Book Review: Humans by Surekha Davies
This should have been a really cool book. It’s about the history of monster-making!
Book Review: There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib makes basketball interesting, because it’s not so much about the sport itself as how people feel about the sport.
Book Review: H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
I knew this was a book about the author training a hawk while mourning her dad’s sudden death, so I expected a certain amount about him. What I did not expect was so much about late British author T.H. White.
Book Review: The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf by Kaila Adia Story
The great thing about this book is that it is exactly what it says it’s going to be. It’s concise. It doesn’t wander off.