Where is your nonfiction section please.
Book review: The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus by John Glatt (Amazon / Book Depository) True crime writer John Glatt's The Lost Girls is saddled with a painfully long subtitle, I assume to distinguish it from the long list of other books named... Continue Reading →
Book review: War Diaries, 1939-1945, by Astrid Lindgren, translated by Sarah Death (Amazon / Book Depository) Astrid Lindgren, the beloved author of the Pippi Longstocking series, lived through the Second World War with her family in Stockholm, Sweden. She was just beginning her writing career, and in wartime got a job in the censorship office. Lindgren began recording... Continue Reading →
Book review: American Ghost, by Hannah Nordhaus Book Depository I'd saved this for a Halloweeny read, and I'm glad that I read it after Colin Dickey's Ghostland. It got a fair amount of negative, or at least disappointed, Goodreads reviews, and I might have felt the same if I hadn't learned so much from his book about why... Continue Reading →
Book review: Pour Me a Life, by A.A. Gill (Amazon / Book Depository) Surprised by how much I liked this! I picked it initially because earlier this year I read and loved Sarah Hepola's excellent memoir Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, about drinking too much for too long, so I was open to... Continue Reading →
Book review: Nobody's Girl, by Barbara Amaya (Amazon / Book Depository) I got caught up and read the whole thing in an afternoon. By the end I was incredibly moved and near tears. I've read a lot of awful things, like everyone, considering all the bad news the world has to offer. But there's something... Continue Reading →
What's Nonfiction? 