Three star review, originally posted here on September 13th, 2024. I hesitate to even rate this because it’s not even a book. Audible pitched it to me, it was free and short, it had Joseph Fiennes, and the story looked super interesting. Only after starting it did I realize this is just an old-timey radio … More Goodreads Review: Bluebeard by Jim Clemente and Peter McDonnell
Four star review, originally posted here on September 9th, 2024. I wasn’t going to read this book. It looked boring. It was free, which made me suspicious (They can’t even give this thing away!) And at a whopping 20+ hours it was loooooong. I hate long books. And this boring-looking book seemed like it would … More Goodreads Review: Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
Three star review, originally posted here on September 3rd, 2024. I got this book from the airport convenience store. It was the only book win the slim selection that seemed even remotely appealing, and I was basically just looking for a light fun beach read, so my standards and expectations were low. As I started … More Goodreads Review: The Housekeepers by Alex Hay
Full disclosure: I visited this museum in bad faith (faith! get it? harharhar.I’msorry.) When I came up with my idea to visit as many museums as possible this year, that very much included the idea of pushing my own boundaries by going to see museums that I did not expect to enjoy. Museums that to … More Museum Review: Museum of the Bible
Four star review, originally posted here on August 20, 2024. It took me a few attempts to get started on this book, which was gifted to me. It is clear at the very beginning that this book was not written by a professional writer. That’s fine; it’s a holocaust memoir, so I’m not going to … More Goodreads Review: Together: A Journey for Survival by Ann Arnold
Three star review, originally posted here on August 20, 2024. I hadn’t heard of this book before, but it was listed very high on a Goodreads list of best memoirs. I love a good memoir, and this one had promise. From its placement on the list, and the other books around it, I was expecting … More Goodreads Review: Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
I was in Toronto last weekend, and had a little bit of free time to potentially cram in a museum visit for my 2024 Museum Visit resolution. Obviously, the most important museum in Toronto is the Hockey Hall of Fame, but I saw that the last time I was in town. Next up would be … More Museum Review: Museum of Illusions Toronto
We’re halfway through the year, and when I took stock of my progress on my new years’ resolutions, I had mixed results. I’ve been right on track with visiting and reviewing enough museum for my “visit and review museums” resolution, but I noticed that I’d barely made it to any of the museums that I … More Museum Review: The National Building Museum
Three star review, originally posted here: It’s tough to believe that this book was written by the same person who wrote Cold Mountain. It’s not that Nightwoods is terrible; it’s just kind of there. Whereas Cold Mountain was absolutely incredible. Cold Mountain had so much to say. It was so imaginative and so thought-provoking, with … More Goodreads Review: Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
Four star review, originally posted here on June 30th, 2024. I’m not sure if books can get much more niche than this. A couple months ago I was in London, and our very last act as tourists was to stop by the Sir John Soane Museum. We didn’t really know what we were getting into … More Goodreads Review: At Home with the Soanes: Upstairs, Downstairs in 19th Century London by Susan Palmer
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