by Kerry Howley Format: ebook Primary Doorways: Character, Plot Genre: Cultural Commentary Non-Fiction Read for: A quick tour of the surveillance state and its impacts Kerry Howley’s non-fiction book Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs runs through a quick tour of several of the most infamous whistle-blowers and deep state critics of recent years. The […]
by Meg Eden Kuyatt Format: Audiobook Primary Doorways: Character Genre: Novel in Verse (Middle Grade) Read for: an uplifting story of self discovery A 2024 Schneider Family Book Award Honor Middle Grade winner, Meg Eden Kuyatt’s Good Different is a propulsive, uplifting novel-in-verse. Seventh-grader Selah doesn’t feel quite human (is she part-dragon) but is making […]
by Emma Cline Format: Audiobook Primary Doorways: Character, Setting Genre: Literary Fiction Read for: A character you are so mad at for 90% of the novel, but still root for When I was in my English 102 class in college, our professor defined tragedy as a person who was destined from greatness, but took a […]
by Amanda Diekman Format: ebook Primary Doorways: Plot, Character Genre: Memoir/Self-Help Read for: An eye opening look on how household communication impacts all members Amanda Diekman’s memoir/self-help book Low-Demand Parenting will challenge your notions of what a demand is, the load we ask of our children, and how much we can let go. Diekman is […]
by Zadie Smith Format: Physical Book Primary Doorways: Character Genre: Historical Fiction Read for: Revelations about being human While Mrs. Lewes only shows up once or twice in Zadie Smith’s novel, The Fraud, her most famous (?) novel, Middlemarch is abundantly present. Middlemarch is subtitled “the study of a provincial life” and Smith continues that […]
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