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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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 …
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 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
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 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 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 Drunk with Love: 5 stars
nstillger rated A gate at the stairs: 3 stars
A gate at the stairs by Lorrie Moore
"...As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of …
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 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 In the land of dreamy dreams: 4 stars
In the land of dreamy dreams by Ellen Gilchrist (Voices of the South)
nstillger rated Net of jewels: 5 stars
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 …