Category: books

It’s the fourth month of this year and I finally picked up reading again. I surprised myself and finished four – very different, I might add – books, after hardly reading anything between January and March.  Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder (★★★☆☆) I picked up...

I had high hopes of getting a lot of reading done in November, especially with the long holiday weekend and nowhere to be. Well, let’s just say things didn’t quite work out that way. I ended up finishing one book in November. It was a hard, but necessary read. Maybe...

My reading was all over the place in September. I actually picked up a total of 4 books, but only finished one, so the review for the others has to wait. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary Trump (★★★★☆) I...

I read some really good books last month, thought-provoking, emotionally hard, but really important books. A long way home by Saroo Brierley (★★★★★) Better known as a backstory for the movie, Lion, in this autobiography, Brierley tells his life story, describing his ordeals and adventures as a lost five-year-old in...

Gah, July was a frustrating month again reading-wise. It might have been that my focus was elsewhere, but it also might have been because I am picking “heavier” books these days (no pun intended). I started How to be an anti-racist by Ibram X. Kendi but didn’t finish it before...

I finished 5 books in June (what?!). I think with everything that was going on, I felt like reading was the best course of “action” (as you can tell from some of the titles). So yeah, June was a good reading month. It probably helped that I was fired up...