Category: Counterpoint Press
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Review: STILL LIVES by Maria Hummel
Thank you so much to Counterpoint Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered womenâthe Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown…
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Review: TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN RACIST by Blanche McCrary Boyd
Thank you so much Counterpoint Press for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Â Ellenâs brother, Royce, was a celebrated novelist who, a decade earlier, saw his work adopted by racists and fell under the sway of white supremacy. Ellen thought him dead from a botched FBI raid on his compound.…
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Review: END OF THE ROPE by Jan Redford
Thank you so much Counterpoint Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Â As a teenager, in a fit of rage toward her father, Jan pits herself against a steep rock face near their cottage. At the top, fired up by the victory, she sets her sights on the…
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Review: BLACK SWANS by Eve Babitz
Thank you so much to Counterpoint Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Blurb: A new reissue of Babitzâs collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990sâdecades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. Black Swans further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing…
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Book Mail: THE LIBRARY: A CATALOGUE OF WONDERS by Stuart Kells
This book is packed full of fascinating information about the history of libraries all over the world! Thank you so much to Counterpoint Press for sending this free copy! SYNOPSIS: “If you think you know what a library is, this marvellously idiosyncratic book will make you think again.” âThe Sydney Morning Herald Libraries are much…
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Review: HEART BERRIES by Terese Marie Mailhot
Book Description:Â Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given…
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Review: THE GUNNERS by Rebecca Kauffman
Thank you so much to Counterpoint Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. âWhat if ghosts think theyâre the real ones, and weâre the dead ones?â Book Description: Mikey Callahan, a thirty-year-old who is suffering from the clouded vision of macular degeneration. He struggles to establish human connectionsâeven his emotional…
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Amazon Purchase: HEART BERRIES by Terese Marie Mailhot
I have been waiting to read this one! I’ve seen this on a bunch of “must read” lists and the cover is gorgeous! It’s surprisingly short too! SYNOPSIS: Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional…
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Fantastic Book Mail: WINTER KEPT US WARM by Anne Raeff
Thank you so much to Counterpoint Press for sending me a free copy of this gorgeous book! I have had my eye on this one for months so I am very excited to read it! SYNOPSIS:Â Ulli is a young woman squatting in a dismal, empty Berlin apartment, one year after the war has ended.…
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Review: BODY FULL OF STARS by Molly Caro May
Thank you so much to Counterpoint Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Â What if labor does not end with pregnancy but continues into a motherâs postpartum life? How can the fiercest love for your child and the deepest wells of grief coexist in the same moment? How…