Ten years ago, I posted a“Best/Worst of 2004” pieceon Ignatius Insight, containing a listing of books and music that I either really liked or didn’t care for at all. That then led, the following year, to thefirst “Best Books I Read in…” piece. Each year there have been more...
Focus on Lewis’s major point: that it did not take bad will or large-scale theft and violence (although large-theft and violence there was) for the globalization that brought world trade and colonial rule to serve as a global inequality amplifier: the simple competitive workings of the marke...
I sing the same songs to baby over and over in my flat tone-deaf voice; I try not to fall down the rabbithole of MOTHERHOOD INFLUENCERS who promise MAGICAL SOLUTIONS one way or another. Thank God I have managed to feel more confident and not like I need to call the midwife hotline ...
Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can’t work out why she stopped. Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But And...
Eager for a look inside the White House akin to The Crown’s insight into Buckingham Palace? Upstairs at the White House offers a similar exploration of the First Ladies of the United States. Although being First Lady, or even President, is not entirely comparable to being the Queen of Engl...
The things that she has experienced and the ignorance some people show towards her is both eye-opening and so similar to my own experiences of being a wheelchair user. I would recommend this book to everyone, it’s such a good read. How to Save a Life by Liz Fenton I got the ebook...
The family are attending for the reading of the will left by Takaaki Hara (Soichiro Kitamura). She believes one of those attending was responsible for killing her lover, Jiro Satonaka (Kei Tanaka) and almost strangling her to death in an earlier attack at this guest house. Why, you ask, ...
“Alone at Dawn,” the story of how John Chapman won the Medal of Honor as a USAF pararescueman. A stirring story that drives home just how little most of us know about what the women and men who serve in our military may be asked to do and endure in our names. ...
something similar, I highly recommendthe following: Labyrinth Lost (Brooklyn Brujas, #1)byZoraida Córdova Bruja Born (Brooklyn Brujas, #2)byZoraida Córdova A Crash of Fate (Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, #1)byZoraida Córdova The Vicious Deep (The Vicious Deep #1)byZoraida Córdova...
Later she travels to an African country for a similar event. She ruminates on her time with Karel – willing him to come back to her. Meanwhile we get a glimpse of some of her unknown relatives in the East Midlands. Naturally all the strands come together in a novel about family, ...