nstillger rated The Red Word: 3 stars
The Red Word by Sarah Henstra
"A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go, The Red Word …
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace - One School at a Time by David Oliver Relin, Greg Mortenson
The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in …
nstillger rated The invention of wings: 2 stars
The invention of wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Hetty "Handful" Grimke, an urban slave in early-19th-century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within …
nstillger rated Fates and Furies: 4 stars
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great …
nstillger rated The Boys in the Boat: 4 stars
Daniel James Brown: The Boys in the Boat (2013, Viking)
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Daniel James Brown’s robust book tells the story of the University of Washington’s 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest …
nstillger rated Me Before You: 3 stars
nstillger rated The submission: 4 stars
The submission by Amy Waldman
When Mohammad Khan, an American Muslim, is selected as the designer of a memorial for the victims of a terrorist …
nstillger rated Death is a lonely business: 4 stars
Death is a lonely business by Ray Bradbury
I first came upon this novel purely by accident, I was doing an evening class course at a local technical …
nstillger rated In the land of dreamy dreams: 4 stars
In the land of dreamy dreams by Ellen Gilchrist (Voices of the South)
nstillger rated Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Trail: 2 stars
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Trail by Cheryl Strayed (A Borzoi Book)
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from …
nstillger rated Where'd You Go, Bernadette: 4 stars
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's …
nstillger rated Net of jewels: 5 stars
nstillger rated Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas: 3 stars
Tom Robbins: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (Paperback, 2002, No Exit Press)
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you--an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker--are …
nstillger rated The Anna Papers: 3 stars
nstillger rated The Goldfinch: 5 stars
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel …