Escape by Carolyn Jessop

There is nothing I love more than cult escape stories.  I know it makes me a gross person because these are real people who are actually effected by people like David Miscavige and Warren Jeffs' brutality and brainwashing... but there is very...

 Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt

As I'm pretty well ensconced in my cult-reading obsession and I've always been one for a good ghost story, this book was an enjoyable read for me.  The split (see what I did there?) narrative and the way the author downplayed the most ma...

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Matchless by Gregory Maguire 

"I think I'll tryyyyyy Defyiiiiiiiiing Gravity..."

Okay.  Ignore me.

I love me some Gregory Maguire.  He's built his writing career doing interesting, dark (even sometimes darker than the original.  Those Grimm brothers be fucked up... ami...

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead 

I decided that for 2016, I'm going to sport a rather charming existensial crisis.  So I figured the start of a new year was the perfect time to let someone who has her s...

So, next up on the BWR Challenge is Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner.  Previously I'd only read The Sound and the Fury (and fucking hated every second of it) so my exposure to Faulkner is pretty limited.  I'm actually enjoying Absalom, Absalom! so I wanted to lear...

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Remember how Margaret Atwood and I are besties?  Remember how we totally enjoyed a cocktail together at the Rare Book Room in Strand Bookstore?  Remember how I got my copy of The Blind Assassin signed by Her Majesty?

Now that...

Your Rightful Home by Alyssa Knickerbocker

In full disclosure, Your Rightful Home was written by a childhood friend of mine.  However, Lauren Groff (of Fates and Furies fame) blurbed this before her book became Obama's #1 book of 2015.  So... legit.  Absolutely legit....

As we start to wind down 2015, I've been seeing a lot of best-of lists.  You know I need everyone to know what I think.  So here are mine.  My favorite books published in 2015.

 I'm ready for you, 2016... come at me, brah!

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 The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

I read this for my local independent bookstore's monthly book group.  I was a little afraid going into it.  My stepmother (a HUGE Tolkien fan) had tried to get me to read this book so many times in my childhood and adolescence.  And I just...