Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Nevermore: How to Stand Up to a Dictator, On Beauty, Knife

 



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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