Category Archives: Year

Truly Devious, by Maureen Johnson (audio)

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Thistle

Eighty years ago, there was a kidnapping and murder at the Ellingham Academy, a special school for individual learning in Vermont. Stevie Bell, a new student at Ellingham, is determined to solve the cold case. Then a new mystery arises, … Continue reading →

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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman (audio)

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Thistle

Eleanor Oliphant is a peculiar woman. She has little to no social skills, she speaks so precisely that it borders on absurd, and she is completely detached from emotion. Around her thirtieth birthday, life begins to change. She and a … Continue reading →

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The Girl on the Velvet Swing, by Simon Baatz (audio)

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Thistle

Subtitled: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Trigger warning: sexual violence Spoiler warning: These are actual events, so I will discuss details. In the early 1900s, Evelyn Nesbit was raped by architect Stanford White, who … Continue reading →

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Consider the Fork, by Bee Wilson (audio)

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Thistle

Subtitled: A History of How We Cook and Eat I’ve read a lot of food history over the years, and some cooking history as well. While this book deals with both food and cooking, it is instead a history of … Continue reading →

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The City of Brass, by SA Chakraborty

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Thistle

Nahri is a con-woman in 19th century Cairo with a few magical abilities that she uses to survive. Then one night, those magical abilities accidentally call a djinn to her, and suddenly she’s on the run from demons and discovering … Continue reading →

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Mind Games, by Kiersten White

Posted on January 8, 2018 by Thistle

Two sisters with psychic powers. A mysterious and dangerous school. Both sisters trying to protect and save each other though one is blind and one is psychologically traumatized by what she’s forced to do. I only found out recently that … Continue reading →

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Sirens & Sinners, by Hans Helmut Prinzler

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Thistle

Subtitled: A Visual History of Weimar Film 1918-1933 This book is exactly what the subtitle says. There’s a text introduction, discussing cinematography, photography, and the historical-political-social climate of the time period and location. Then we move on to the movies … Continue reading →

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Night of Cake and Puppets, by Laini Taylor

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Thistle

In the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy by Laini Taylor, Karou’s best friend is an absolutely amazing “rabid fairy” named Zuzana. Zuzana has the biggest crush on a co-worker she knows only as “violin-boy,” and her rabid-fairy-ness flees whenever … Continue reading →

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WW: The Case Against Sugar, by Gary Taubes (audio)

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Thistle

A personal history: I grew up in the low-fat high-carb era. As an example, my mom made Kraft mac and cheese with just the noodles, cheese packet, and a bit of skim milk, because the butter the box called for … Continue reading →

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Protected: Into the Bright Unknown, by Rae Carson

Posted on December 15, 2017 by Thistle

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