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Blockade Billy by Stephen King
3.5
Solid, not phenomenal or especially original. As I await the start of baseball season it helped to tide me over!
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair Braverman
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Braverman's writing is so evocative; whether she was recounting learning how to steer a team of dogs or sitting around a table with the regulars at a Norwegian near-store, I felt like almost like I was right there experiencing it myself. She has a very interesting story to tell, and pairs it with really trenchant analysis of what it is like to move through the world in a female body and the harassment and threat of violence that accompanies that.
As Ever, Miriam by Faythe Levine
medium-paced
4.75
Delightful, informative and illuminating. And so innovative! The collection of signoffs from Miriam Frank's letters to Charlotte Partridge -- sandwiched between segments detailing the history and context of MF's and CP's lives as well as the archival process followed by the author -- provide a uniquely documented record of the personal and professional partnership over 60+ decades shared by these two extraordinary women. Their story deserves to be told.
Godspeed by Nickolas Butler
dark
tense
fast-paced
4.5
I *really* liked this book! An absolutely gripping page-turner with incisive commentary about class, capitalism and gentrification -- I could not put it down and did not want to. I also marvel at Nickolas Butler's ability to write across multiple genres -- I hope he does more like this!