Great, thorough look at the Whitey Bulger fiasco with the Boston FBI. I wish the copy I read was a bit more updated, so much has happened since it’s publication.

This book was a pleasure to read. It's eloquent, quite fitting for novel about the formation of the OED. The suffrage movement chapters didn't really fit for me. My only complaint.

Erica's origin story! So good, loving how menacing the order is and it's nice to see some other morally grey characters.

Still good, but I'm not really into this new villain as much.

Interesting book that charts the later career of Henry Flagler and his ill-faited railroad project through the Florida keys. There’s a lot of interesting history of late 19th Florida and of course, a lot of descriptions of hurricanes.

I don’t mean to pick on a well regarded older book, but if you name a book after a dog, it needs to really be about the dog.

The book is a horrifically sad book about the child of a sharecropper, there happens to be a dog in it.

I wonder how many kids over the years read Shiloh and thought “oh sweet, Sounder, another dog book!” Only to be blindsided.

This is pretty disjointed. Part biography, part natural science, part conservation commentary.

The main crux of the book is: eels reproduce in the Sargasso Sea, they migrate really far to do this, and they’re pretty mysterious. Over and over and over.

This is a great, great middle grades graphic novel. There’s some often covered issues like new babies and new schools. But I can’t remember a book covering allergies as well as this one does. It also shines a light on having a friend whose parents have a different parenting style.

I’d recommend it, it’s a quick read.

This is a wonderfully specific look at how the Founding Fathers’ perception of their United States changed as they left office and entered retirement.

If you’ve read biographies of Washington, Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison significant portions of this might feel like a retread.

However, the author does a terrific job at comparing and contrasting what each FF grew disillusioned with at the onset of the 18th century.

I’d recommend it highly if you’re interested in early American history.

It’s hard to rate a memoir, so I won’t. I’d never heard of this cult (Children of God) but it was was an interesting and somewhat innocuous look at what went on in a doomsday cult in the late 80s early 90s. I don’t want to demean someone’s lived experience, but the lion’s share of the book is written from the perspective of a child and the vibe of the book leans heavily into a somewhat insulated, safe feel.