We all know that that mass incarceration of people of color is a vile epidemic. We hear of black men being arrested for small infractions while white men guilty of the same thing walk free. But even more disgusting is the number of innocent men of color paying the pric...

I'll Be Gone in the Dark  has gotten a lot of buzz lately. Because the spoiler of all spoilers occurred for the world on April 25th, 2018... the Golden State Killer was identified and arrested. Much celebrating occurred but it was one woman whose tireless work wa...

 The Art of Asking or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help by Amanda Palmer

I love me some Amanda Palmer.  She's kick ass and honest and kick ass and talented and kick ass and fascinating.  She is a LITERAL rockstar.  So I was thrilled to learn that she wa...

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief 

As we continue Bear's descent into her Scientology obsession (this book was actually the fuel for my latest fascination... this book is just much more robust than the others I've recently read so it took me...

The minute I was made aware of this book's release, I knew I needed it in my hot little hands.  So I found the library closest to me that was in-processing it and managed to grab the first hold spot. And then I ran out of audiobooks and knew I was getting dangerously c...

As I'm mid-Getting Things Done, was in need of a new audiobook and was listening to (as I always do) the Book Riot podcast, I decided that I would download The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (author of Being Mortal).  I had been listening to a lot of fiction on au...

I had the privilege to hear Garth Stein speak on his latest book A Sudden Light a few weeks ago.  The Art of Racing in the Rain is Stein's most famous work, but it had been on my TBR list for years without me having made any actual steps towards reading it.  So while...

"The gang's all here!" books are absolutely in my wheelhouse. You know which ones I'm talking about... a group of friends that we meet as adolescents and get witness the dynamic of that same group as grown ups with jobs, bills and all the bullshit that adult life bri...

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

I know, I know, I know.  Donna Tartt wrote this forever ago.  Well, you know what?  I'm a follower.  So after I read (and "meh'd") The Goldfinch because everyone was reading it due to it's Pulitizer win... I figured I'd h...

 Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth

I knew nothing about London workhouses until the few brief mentions of it on Call the Midwife, so I was excited to learn more about their creation from this book.  It made me think a lot about how so many seemingly devious so...