Wants to read Anomaly Flats
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Rated Beat Fatigue With Yoga: The Simple Step-By-Step Way to Restore Energy 8/10
The title <i>Beat Fatigue with Yoga</i> sounds like something one would see on an infomercial, I know. To be honest, I don’t think I’d have even considered the book had it not been recommended by someone with similar health issues. Once I was done rolling my eyes at the title, I found quite a bit of useful information.<br><br>Like anything self-help or exercise related, your results may vary. Still, if depleted energy levels are an issue for you, I don’t think it would hurt to investigate this book. I’m guessing that over time, I will use it as a guide, but not a bible. My body and my attitude will decide the rest.<br><br>(My full review can be found on <a href="http://persephonemagazine.com/2012/08/02/book-review-beat-fatigue-with-yoga-by-fiona-agombar/">Persephone Magazine.</a>
Wants to read Back to the Best Books: A New Look at Some Old Books
Rated BASQUIAT, A QUICK KILLING IN ART, BY PHOEBE HOBAN 6/10
While I enjoyed some of the art gossip and New York history, this book too often describes Basquiat as an exotic, wild 'other.' Some quotes about him are straight up racist, and the book does little to analyze that. <br><br>Overall, just ok.
Rated Bernice Summerfield: Many Happy Returns 8/10
Wants to read Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
Rated Bernice Summerfield: Treasury 8/10
<div>A solid collection of Benny short stories. Figures that Stephen Moffat's is another "boy has mysterious lady in his life" (AND there's a character named Irene!), but the man knows what he likes writing, I guess!!</div>
Wants to read Classifieds: An Anthology of Prose Poems
Rated Black and Blue 8/10
<div>A good mystery, though not everything from the mid-'90s holds up today</div>
Rated Bobby March Will Live Forever 8/10
<div>I really enjoy this series, even when there are a couple of plot points that conveniently tie up some loose ends.</div>
Rated Doctor Who: Memory Lane 8/10
More about memory, so I hope this eventually leads to some sort of conclusion.
Rated Bruja 10/10
How appropriate to finish this book on Halloween (and also its official release date).<br><br>This book easily disproves the commonly heard refrain that hearing about other people's dreams is boring. BRUJA is certainly not boring, and is instead a surreal trip through art, anxiety, motherhood, California, and more. I loved it.<br><br>Particularly amusing to me were dreams involving cats... My cat dreams are usually hella weird.<br><br>Fuller review to come (she says with optimism because I've been slow about review writing this year).
Finished reading Daleks: Mission to the Unknown
Rated By Nightfall 8/10
<i>By Nightfall</i> poses questions about success, how we define love and beauty, and what our basest instincts say about us when we are in peril. Michael Cunningham is an exceedingly good writer, more than deserving of the accolades he’s received over the years. I love any book that makes me identify and sympathize with a character through his/her bad decisions and confusion, since when we are truly honest with ourselves, we know we are capable of the very same things.<br><br>(Full review appears on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2011/02/by-nightfall-by-michael-cunningham.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)
Rated Companion to an Untold Story 8/10
Not every writer would be able to pull off a book like this, and I don't know how much attention Aldrich has received for her effort — apart from winning the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction — but I suspect that it isn't what it deserves. Yet, <i>Companion to an Untold Story</i> is not a project that set out wishing for accolades. (Let's be honest, writers, we won't turn down praising-recognition of our work.) Though I can only infer her intentions, it seems to me that Aldrich wanted this book to be the best way she could memorialize her friend, and in that, find some acceptance. That others may identify and find value in it, I imagine, is but a wonderful gift.<br><br>(My full review can be found at <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2012/12/companion-to-untold-story-by-marcia.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)
Reviewed Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery
<a href="https://smus.com/books/asimovs-chronology-of-science-and-discovery">Full review on smus.com</a>