Marie's book garden

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders , by Jennifer Finley Boylan   I’ve read a number of books by trans authors, and this was not the ...

 I've been neglecting my book reviews so I'm terribly behind! Here's my first brain dump of reviews! Lakewood by Megan Giddings...

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century , by Fiona Hill  If you're like me, you hadn't heard ...

The 1619 Project, a New Origin Story , by Nikole Hannah-Jones I described this book to a friend by likening it to Howard Zinn's People...

Passage West , by Rishi Reddi This was a fascinating read about South Indians in the Imperial Valley in California...many Sikhs and other I...

  Mrs. Kimble , by Jennifer Haight I picked this book up at a Little Free Library, and it was compulsively readable. I did question the char...

Starting my own business has severely dented my ability to keep up with my personal writing, in addition to my habit of regularly writing bo...

An American Marriage , by Tayari Jones I got the good fortune of hearing Tayari Jones speak on her book tour before actually reading this bo...

Island of Lost Girls , by Jennifer McMahon I picked this up in a Little Free Library, and it sounded intriguing. Ultimately, though, I found...

Black Like Me , by John Howard Griffin  Our priest, who is a highly well-read 90-year-old, mentioned Black Like Me in his (Zoom) homily ear...

I've been capturing my top books of each year since 2001. You can access all of them here . While some of my friends are reading far les...