ARC Review Book Review

ARC Review | Love, Zac: Small-Town Football and the Life and Death of an American Boy by Reid Forgrave

Title: Love, Zac: Small-Town Football and the Life and Death of an American Boy Author: Reid Forgrave Genre: Nonfiction, MemoirPublished On: September 8, 2020Publisher: Algonquin BooksSource: physicalPages: 288 CW: Suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, animal death Synopsis: “A monumental achievement of deep reporting and expert storytelling.” —Michael Sokolove, author of The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino “I …

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TBR Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Fall 2020 TBR

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Books on My Fall 2020 TBR (or spring if you’re in the southern hemisphere) Hello Readers! My favorite time …

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Book Challenge

My 2020 Popsugar Summer Reading Challenge Wrap-Up

This is my third year to participate in the regular Popsugar Reading Challenge, but I had no idea that spin-off challenges even existed! So I was simultaneously excited and anxious when I saw they’d released a SUMMER challenge! Anxious because did I really want to add to the stack of books I was already reading …

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ARC Review Blog Tour Book Review

Blog Tour | A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son by Michael Ian Black

Title: A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son Author: Michael Ian Black Genre: Nonfiction, MemoirPublished On: September 15, 2020Publisher: Algonquin BooksSource: physical, digitalPages: 304 Synopsis: “Raw, intimate, and true . . . A Better Man cracked me wide open, and it’s a template for the conversation we need to be having with our boys.”—Peggy Orenstein, …

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ARC Book Review | The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves

Title: The Darkest EveningAuthor: Ann Cleeves Genre: MysteryPublished On: September 8, 2020Publisher: Minotaur BooksSource: digitalPages: 336 Synopsis: From Ann Cleeves—New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—comes the stunning new Vera Stanhope novel. On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home …

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ARC Book Review | Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen

Title: Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen LandAuthor: Toni Jensen Genre: NonfictionPublished On: September 8, 2020Publisher: Ballantine BooksSource: digitalPages: 304 CW: All of them. But mostly physical, emotional, and gun violence. Synopsis: A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters …

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