Category: Non-Fiction

  • Review: PURE by Linda Kay Klein

    Review: PURE by Linda Kay Klein

    Many thanks to Touchstone Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Description:  In the 1990s, a “purity industry” emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a dangerous message: girls are potential sexual “stumbling blocks” for boys and men, and any expression…

  • Blog Tour & Review: I’D RATHER BE READING by Anne Bogel

    Blog Tour & Review: I’D RATHER BE READING by Anne Bogel

    Many thanks to the wonderful Anne Bogel and Baker Books for providing my free copy – all  are my own.    About the Book:  For so many people, reading isn’t just a hobby or a way to pass the time–it’s a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us.…

  • Review: OKAY FINE WHATEVER by Courtenay Hameister

    Review: OKAY FINE WHATEVER by Courtenay Hameister

    Thank you so much Little, Brown and Company for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  For most of her life (and even during her years as the host of a popular radio show), Courtenay Hameister lived in a state of near-constant dread and anxiety. She fretted about everything. Her age.…

  • Review: CHARLOTTE WALSH LIKES TO WIN by Jo Piazza

    Review: CHARLOTTE WALSH LIKES TO WIN by Jo Piazza

    Thank you so much to Simon and Schuster for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Book Description:  Charlotte Walsh is running for Senate in the most important race in the country during a midterm election that will decide the balance of power in Congress. Still reeling from a presidential election that…

  • Review: JELL-O GIRLS by Allie Rowbottom

    Review: JELL-O GIRLS by Allie Rowbottom

    Many thanks to Little, Brown and Company for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  In 1899, Allie Rowbottom’s great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and the generations that…

  • Review: SEX AND THE CITY AND US by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

    Review: SEX AND THE CITY AND US by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

    Thank you so much to Simon and Schuster for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Description:  This is the story of how a columnist, two gay men, and a writers’ room full of women used their own poignant, hilarious, and humiliating stories to launch a cultural phenomenon. They endured shock, slut-shaming,…

  • Review: FROM THE CORNER OF THE OVAL by Beck Dorey-Stein

    Review: FROM THE CORNER OF THE OVAL by Beck Dorey-Stein

    Thank you so very much to Random House for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Description:  In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein is working five part-time jobs and just scraping by when a posting on Craigslist lands her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama’s stenographers. The ultimate D.C. outsider,…

  • Review: MANY LOVE by Sophie Lucido Johnson

    Review: MANY LOVE by Sophie Lucido Johnson

    Many thanks to Touchstone Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  After trying for years to emulate her boomer parents’ forty-year and still-going-strong marriage, Sophie realized that maybe the love she was looking for was down a road less traveled. In this bold, graphic memoir, she explores her…

  • Review: ROBIN by Dave Izkoff

    Review: ROBIN by Dave Izkoff

    BIG thanks to Henry Holt for providing my free copy of ROBIN by Dave Itzkoff – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  Dave Itzkoff shows in this revelatory biography, Williams’s comic brilliance masked a deep well of conflicting emotions and self-doubt, which he drew upon in his comedy and in celebrated films like Dead Poets…

  • Review: BARRACOON by Zora Neale Hurston

    Review: BARRACOON by Zora Neale Hurston

    Thank you so much to Harper Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Book Description:  A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the…