Title: Girl, Interrupted Author: Susanna Kaysen Publication Year: 1993 Pages: 192 Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir Source: Sent to me from Carly during the Book Read ‘Round the World exchange From the cover: In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she’d never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean [...]

Title: Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution Author: Sara Marcus Publication Year: 2010 Pages: 384 Genre: Non-Fiction Source: Review copy from the publisher From the cover: Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of Riot Grrrl — the radical feminist uprising that exploded into the public eye [...]

This month was a bit crazy in terms of my “real life”, but blogging was rather calmer. I finished off my teaching placement in the first two weeks of November, and then the person whose maternity leave I was covering returned. Right the next morning, I was on a flight out to Vancouver to visit [...]

Title: Libertad Author: Alma Fullerton Publication Year: 2008 Pages: 224 Genre: Fiction, Verse Source: A school library From the cover: When a freak accident kills their mother, Libertad and his little brother Julio are no longer safe living on their own near the Guatemala City Dump. Libertad knows that surviving by their wits alone won’t [...]

Title: The Lonely Polygamist Author: Brady Udall Narrator: David Aaron Baker Publication Year: 2010 Pages: 602 (audio length: 23 hours 10 minutes) Genre: Fiction Source: Purchased audiobook from Audible.com From the cover: Golden Richards, husband to four wives, father to twenty-eight children, is having the mother of all midlife crises. His construction business is failing, [...]