Tag Archives: gender studies

The It Girl, by Ruth Ware

Posted on September 13, 2022 by Thistle

Ten years after April’s murder, her killer dies in prison, still proclaiming his innocence. Hannah, April’s then-roommate and friend, is left uneasy. It was her evidence that put John Neville away, after all, and if he wasn’t really guilty, then … Continue reading →

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Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas (audio)

Posted on September 9, 2022 by Thistle

As this is the sixth book in the Lady Sherlock series, I’m not going to go into a whole lot of detail. We’ve reached the point in the Sherlock series (if I understand the original Sherlock) where Holmes has come … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Stalker

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Thistle

Note: For the purposes of this post, I am lumping myself into the category of “woman” as I am afab and was socialized female. Women are gaslit from early childhood. We’re told that boys hurt you or make fun of … Continue reading →

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Tell Me Everything, by Erika Krouse (audio)

Posted on July 1, 2022 by Thistle

Subtitled: The Story of a Private Investigation Part memoir, part legal/true crime, Krouse details the work she did as a private detective on a landmark case involving sexual assault in the collegiate football arena. Over the course of several years, … Continue reading →

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Curfew, by Jayne Cowie

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Thistle

For fifteen years, women in Great Britain have been safe. Ever since the reforms of 2023, women have had equal pay, domestic work compensation, free and easy access to healthcare such as birth control and abortion, strict laws re: violence … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Silence(d)

Posted on June 26, 2022 by Thistle

I don’t have words right now. We are living in a nightmare. I’m looking toward the future, and for the first time in five years, I’m seriously considering moving again, out of Texas, possibly out of the US. I’m done. … Continue reading →

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The Book of Cold Cases, by Simone St. James

Posted on March 14, 2022 by Thistle

In her spare time, Shea maintains a website and blog called the Book of Cold Cases, looking into theories and evidence of unsolved crimes. She never expects to run into Beth Greer, the so-called “Lady Killer” of the 70s, acquitted … Continue reading →

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One Great Lie, by Deb Caletti

Posted on November 5, 2021 by Thistle

Charlotte has won the scholarship of her dreams, to spend her summer in Venice with a writer’s group under the tutelage of one of her favorite authors, Luca Bruni. Things are more complicated than they first appear when she arrives, … Continue reading →

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Galentine’s Day: The Best People

Posted on February 13, 2021 by Thistle

A few weeks ago, I went for a hike with two friends at a park here in town that I’d never been to. It took me months to get to that park. Agoraphobia had kept me from it for nearly … Continue reading →

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The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness, by Sarah Ramey

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Thistle

From Goodreads: Sarah Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her senior year of college turned into a prolonged and elusive condition that destroyed her health but that doctors couldn’t diagnose or treat. Worse, as … Continue reading →

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