🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ Absurdly wonderful, this 1990s historical exploration focuses on our protagonist’s quest to understand language, love, and their relationship with meaning, in the wildly obscure wonderland of her freshman year at Harvard University. A heroine like no other, Selin Karadag, eighteen years old, is the tallest living member of her…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 “If you have gold, you're good for the rest of your life so long as you hide it.” Three generations of women are brought to life on these pages, a strangely hopeful tale of family, class structures, and solace — as each woman’s life, and experiences, indelibly affects the…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 “And that’s the beauty, isn’t it? You just never know how it ends.” A gloriously uplifting fairy-tale of sorts, helping us consider the wonder of, not “happily ever after”, but its infinitely richer cousin - the power and promise of the ethereally beautiful “hopefully ever after” -…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 An achingly poignant, speculative look at Motherhood, perhaps the ultimate in narcissism, or could it be the exact opposite - a no-holds-barred absorption of identity, choice, and being, into the single-minded pursuit of the well-being and nurturance of another. With mounting insight, the author examines the choices…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ Like waves on an ocean, inexorable and relentless, this brilliant and devastating book washes over you, forcing an acknowledgement, a look squarely in the eye, of a time when the shattering abuse of First Nations parents, and their innocent and helpless children, was not only prevalent, but…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 A gut-wrenching and horrifying look at the atrocity of war, the insidiousness of intolerance, and the frailty of human life, this beautifully-written book is both a compassionate plea and a not-too-gentle reminder of the capriciousness of power. Told from the 3rd person POV perspective of three…