Nevermore 2-18-25
Reported by Rita
How to
Stand Up to a Dictator: the Fight for Our Future by Maria
Ressa
A Philippine Journalist who received the 2021 Nobel Peace
Prize presents strategies for speaking truth to power, challenging corruption
and standing up against authoritarians to battle information and lies.
Interesting and informative look at the efforts of grassroots
groups. –KM 4 stars
On
Beauty: a Novel by Zadie
Smith
Struggling with a stale marriage and the misguided passions of
his three adult children, long-suffering art professor Howard Belsey finds his
family life thrown into turmoil by his son's engagement to the socially
prominent daughter of a right-wing icon. By the author of White Teeth.
The writing was beautiful, but I had trouble getting into the
story. –VC 3 stars
Knife by Jo
Nesbø
Harry Hole is working cold cases, but he is more worried about
the rapist and murderer, Svein Finne, who will soon be out of prison, and when
he wakes up from a drunken blackout with blood on his hands, it marks the start
of a waking nightmare.
Filled with twists and turns. It was good escapism. –FE
4 stars
Other
Books Mentioned
Ardennes
1944: Hitler's last gamble by Antony Beevor
Ellie
Dwyer's Olympic Moment by Diane Winger
This is
Happiness by Niall Williams
122
Surprising Movie Star Stories by Paul Kyriazi
Invisible
Kitties: a Feline Study of Fluid Mechanics or the Spurious Incidents of the
Cats in the Night-Time by Youyou Yu
The
Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days by Helen Rebanks
Rodchenko
and the Arts of Revolutionary Russia by David Elliot
Miss
Morton and the Deadly Inheritance by Catherine Lloyd
Never
Change by Elizabeth Berg
Canada by
Andrew Hempstead
The
Prepper's Water Survival Guide: Harvest, Treat, and Store Your Most Vital
Resource by Daisy Luther
Disaster
Preparedness: Urban Preppers With Kids, Pets & Parents: Disaster Survival
for the Family by James Mushen
The
Anxiety First Aid Kit: Quick Tools for Extreme, Uncertain Times by Rick
Hanson
Locked In by Jussi
Adler-Olsen
The
Screwtape Letters: with, Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C. S.
Lewis
Killers
of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Displeasure
Island by Alice Bell
Furever
After by Sofie Kelly
New Books
A History
of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins
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