Amazon Goodreads Book Depository Barnes and NobleStandalone to dateBlurb:"A fiercely courageous account of one woman's unflinching, raw, and ultimately hopeful journey through sex and porn addiction.For almost two decades, Erica Garza was consumed by a singular, secret, shame-fueled pursuit that threw her life into chaos: orgasm. Back-braced, isolated, and teased in adolescence, and ambivalent about… Continue reading Review and Release Tuesday: Getting Off: One Woman’s Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction by Erica Garza
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ARC Review Thursday: Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran by Laura Secor
Amazon Goodreads Book Depository Barnes and NobleStand alone to dateGoodreads Blurb:"The drama that shaped today’s Iran, from the Revolution to the present day. In 1979, seemingly overnight—moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world—Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been largely a… Continue reading ARC Review Thursday: Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran by Laura Secor
Mini Review Monday: I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
Amazon Goodreads Book Depository Barnes and NobleStand-alone to dateGoodreads Blurb:"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an… Continue reading Mini Review Monday: I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
Review Sunday: Weird Things Customers Say In Bookshops by Jen Campbell
Amazon Goodreads Book Depository Barnes and NobleWeird Things Customers Say In Bookshops #1Goodreads Blurb:"This Sunday Times Bestseller is a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments:'Can books conduct electricity?''My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok... isn't it?'A John Cleese Twitter question ['What is your pet peeve?'], first sparked the 'Weird Things Customers Say… Continue reading Review Sunday: Weird Things Customers Say In Bookshops by Jen Campbell
Review Sunday: Tell No One Who You Are: The Hidden Childhood of Regine Miller by Walter Buchignani and Regine Miller
Amazon Goodreads Book Depository Barnes and NobleGoodreads Blurb:"During the days of Nazi terror in Europe, many Jewish children were taken from their families and hidden. Régine Miller was one such child, who left her mother, father, and brother when she was 10 years old. Utterly alone as she is shunted from place to place, told… Continue reading Review Sunday: Tell No One Who You Are: The Hidden Childhood of Regine Miller by Walter Buchignani and Regine Miller
A Discussion: Heaven Is For Real by Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo, and Colton Burpo
Amazon Goodreads Book Depository Barnes and NobleGoodreads Blurb:""A beautifully written glimpse into heaven that will encourage those who doubt and thrill those who believe."--Ron Hall, coauthor of "Same Kind of Different as Me""Do you remember the hospital, Colton?" Sonja said. "Yes, mommy, I remember," he said. "That's where the angels sang to me."When Colton Burpo… Continue reading A Discussion: Heaven Is For Real by Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo, and Colton Burpo
Book Review Tuesday: Clara’s War by Clara Kramer
Amazon Goodreads Book Depository Barnes and NobleGoodreads Blurb:"On 21 July 1942 the Nazis invaded Poland. In the small town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, Clara and her family hid perilously in a hand-dug cellar. Living above… Continue reading Book Review Tuesday: Clara’s War by Clara Kramer
Book Review Sunday: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
Amazon Goodreads Book Depository Barnes and NobleGoodreads Blurb:"From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities.In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a… Continue reading Book Review Sunday: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo