Category: book review

Book Review — _Not My Type_, by E. Jean Carroll

Suffused with gallows humor, E. Jean’s chronicle of her being the plaintiff in two trials against Donald Trump is, by turns, triggering and hilariously funny. The first trial is where a jury decides if he raped her or sexually assaulted her and then afterwards defamed her by saying her accusations were lies, he never met…

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Petals of Haiku: An Anthology is out!

This is the 4th poetry anthology I’ve been a part of through Gabriela Marie Milton’s publishing house, Literary Revelations. I’m reading it right now and loving the poems in it. Please consider buying a copy. Paperback edition is just under $17 and Kindle edition is $5. Link is here. Read more about it at Gabriela’s…

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Book Review of _Zeitoun_, by Dave Eggers (2009) by Josna

Josna, one of the bloggers I met during A2Z 2025, wrote a book review.  The book’s focus is on one family caught up in chaos during the New Orleans storms that devastated the area, but so much more.  Josna uses it as a starting point to what’s happened in the world since and what’s going…

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Book Review — Stick Houses: Stories By Matthew L.M. Fletcher (2025)

Stick Houses: Stories By Matthew L.M. Fletcher (2025) Michigan State University Press part of the American Indian Studies Series cover design:  Erin Kirk cover art: “Metaphor,” by Jonathan Thunder From the bio on the back cover of the book: Matthew L.M. Fletcher is the Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law and Professor of American…

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Book Review — “Unseen Academicals,” by Terry Pratchett

There are 44 books in the Discworld, put into 8 collections: City Watch, Witches, Unseen University, Death, Industrial Revolution, Gods, Bolt-On, and Younger Readers. Unseen University (UU) is the first collection I started on, with 8 books in it. Unseen Academicals is the last book in the UU collection. This is my favorite in the…

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