My Recent Reads and Various Wanderings

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Nursery Rhymes and Heinous Crimes: A Review of Jasper Fforde’s The Big Over Easy

What if all of your favorite nursery rhyme characters were to resurface in a single, compelling narrative? What if that narrative revolved around a criminal investigation that implicates the most powerful figures in a small England town?

If you’re hooked already, get ready for a wild ride that transforms innocent figures from your childhood into complete menaces and wacky comedians.… Continue reading

A review of Tara Westover’s Educated…and a tribute to the book club that got me to read it

*Warning: contains spoilers!*            

If you’re anything like me and you’re constantly engaged in a relentless quest to find inspiring memoirs, you have likely come across a mention of this profoundly moving book at some point. A brief Google search or a cruise through Goodreads yields all of the information you need to know about the waves Westover’s memoir created in the literary community.… Continue reading