Where is your nonfiction section please.
Book review: Troublemaker, by Leah Remini (Amazon / Book Depository) I love Scientology. NOT LIKE THAT! I don't want to get put on some list, like their never-ending mailing list. But I'm obsessed with knowing about this cult masquerading as a religion. I'm a total SP! (That's Scientololingo for a Suppressive Person, someone who hates on them.) Going... Continue Reading →
Book review: Heretic, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Amazon / Book Depository) On ______, a group of ______ heavily armed, black-clad men burst into a ______ in ______, opening fire and killing a total of ______ people. The attackers were filmed shouting “Allahu akbar!” Speaking at a press conference, President ______ said: “We condemn this criminal act by... Continue Reading →
Book review: The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker (Amazon / Book Depository) Post-9/11, Chicago Tribune reporter Kim Barker accepts a position as South Asian bureau chief based out of Delhi, but more often the work entails going on embed with military units in Afghanistan. She knows nothing about these countries culturally... Continue Reading →
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: The Sound of Gravel, by Ruth Wariner (Amazon) I came across The Sound of Gravel while perusing the Goodreads choice nominees, where it was a finalist in the Memoir category. I read the synopsis and couldn't get my hands on it fast enough. Ruth Wariner grew up in one of the Mormon polygamist sects that escaped American... Continue Reading →
Book review: Lindell's List by Peter Hore (Amazon / Book Depository) Early on in reading Lindell's List, I realized there was no way I was going to be able to keep track of all the people who were in some way involved in the stories and narrative, whether integrally or peripherally. There were so many introduced in rapid succession,... Continue Reading →
Book review: I Will Find You, by Joanna Connors (Amazon / Book Depository) Journalist Joanna Connors is unbelievably brave, whether she admits it or not. She denies it in her memoir, I Will Find You, but everything she does proves otherwise. At age 30, Connors was raped by a man hanging out in an empty theater where she showed... Continue Reading →
Book review: Surviving the Angel of Death, by Eva Mozes Kor (Amazon / Book Depository) If you're familiar with any Holocaust or Auschwitz documentaries, you've probably seen or heard of Eva Mozes Kor. She's the living badass who, as a child along with her twin Miriam, survived the infamous Dr. Mengele's nightmarish experiments on twins... Continue Reading →
Book review: Sex Object, by Jessica Valenti (Amazon / Book Depository) This was my first experience with Jessica Valenti's writing and I came away from it thinking she was a talented writer but a disorganized storyteller, with an important, worthwhile message but way too little faith in herself. This book could've been something very meaningful and impacting,... Continue Reading →
Book review: Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit (Amazon / Book Depository) Last week, a man I've worked with for quite a long time now insisted on explaining something to me. Unlike the understandably infuriating situation described in the title essay of Rebecca Solnit's book, this wasn't a case of explaining a subject... Continue Reading →
Book review: Nujeen, by Nujeen Mustafa with Christina Lamb (Amazon / Book Depository) I fell in love with Nujeen Mustafa, like many did, when Last Week Tonight host John Oliver used BBC interview clips of the teenage Syrian refugee at a way station on the Serbian-Hungarian border as she traveled to Germany with her sister. She was so sweet and... Continue Reading →
Book review: The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg (Amazon / Book Depository) "We all have to work very hard and ignore those people who say we should not be here." So says a female Afghani politician, one of the subjects of Jenny Nordberg's eye-opening narrative nonfiction account of the practice of bacha posh in Afghanistan, The... Continue Reading →
What's Nonfiction? 