This was fun to re-read, it's much more challenging than the average kids book.
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forpeterssake reviewed The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente (Fairyland, #1)
Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father …
Fun for kids or adults
5 stars
forpeterssake finished reading The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente (Fairyland, #1)
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente, Ana Juan (Fairyland, #1)
Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her …
forpeterssake reviewed Two Wheels Good by Jody Rosen
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world
"Excellent …
A fun enough read if you like bikes
3 stars
I like bikes, so I liked this book. It doesn't really break any new ground, though, and two of the chapters are basically extended personal stories loosely based around bike rides.
forpeterssake finished reading Two Wheels Good by Jody Rosen
Two Wheels Good by Jody Rosen, Jody Rosen
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world
"Excellent . . . calls to …
Not as intriguing as the first
3 stars
I still love the idea of an amoral old lady who leaves a trail of bodies in her wake, but slim volume isn't nearly as funny or unexpected as the first. The over-arching story of her trip to South Africa doesn't really stand on its own, and while it does flesh out Maud's motivations and history, I'm not sure it needs to exist.
forpeterssake finished reading An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten
forpeterssake wants to read American Transportation Revolution by Aaron W. Marrs
forpeterssake reviewed Exvangelicals by Sarah McCammon
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"An intimate window into the world of American …
Thought-provoking look at one of America's biggest religious groups on a tipping point
5 stars
Although the author, NPR reporter Sarah McCammon, recounts some of her own evangelical upbringing, this book mercifically avoids being just a memoir. It also avoids a large degree of bitterness, and in surveying and examining the white Americans who have left evangelical churches, the consistent theme seems to be a longing to belong and connect with family and traditions that have no room for them. I was struck by how separated many evangelical kids were growing up, in alternative schools, alternave sports leagues, bible colleges, etc. I was also struck by how the embattled mindset of many evangelical leaders contrasted with the height of their influence in power through the Republican Party, and impropbably, their embrace of Donald Trump. It's a good book, a thoughtful book, and it doesn't pretend to have all the answers, but it definitely cast more light on a big chunk of America whose motivations and …
Although the author, NPR reporter Sarah McCammon, recounts some of her own evangelical upbringing, this book mercifically avoids being just a memoir. It also avoids a large degree of bitterness, and in surveying and examining the white Americans who have left evangelical churches, the consistent theme seems to be a longing to belong and connect with family and traditions that have no room for them. I was struck by how separated many evangelical kids were growing up, in alternative schools, alternave sports leagues, bible colleges, etc. I was also struck by how the embattled mindset of many evangelical leaders contrasted with the height of their influence in power through the Republican Party, and impropbably, their embrace of Donald Trump. It's a good book, a thoughtful book, and it doesn't pretend to have all the answers, but it definitely cast more light on a big chunk of America whose motivations and contradictions often seem hard to understand.
forpeterssake finished reading Exvangelicals by Sarah McCammon
Exvangelicals by Sarah McCammon
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find …
forpeterssake rated Exvangelicals: 5 stars
Exvangelicals by Sarah McCammon
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find …
forpeterssake started reading An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten
forpeterssake reviewed The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
Biting and funny, sometimes off-putting but always thoughtful
4 stars
I admit that I read this collection of essays after seeing her famous bit about the trumpet, which genuinely made me do a spit-take. The rest of the book is not nearly so care-free, it muses on heavy topics like online trolling, doxxing, sexism, misogyny, double-standards, Donald Trump and the alt-right, and other cheerful things like that. West's language is sometimes ascerbic, but she has a point every time and wields her wit and words as a weapon to get your attention. The biggest take-away I took from this book is that I need to finally get around to seeing Shrill, the Hulu series based on her previous book/memoir.
forpeterssake finished reading The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
forpeterssake started reading The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente (Fairyland, #1)
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente, Ana Juan (Fairyland, #1)
Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her …