Tag: booksbriefly
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Books, Briefly: How to Sell a Haunted House
“Books, Briefly” is featuring a spooky book today… Title: How to Sell a Haunted House Author: Grady Hendrix READ IF YOU LIKE: scary stories about hauntings, Halloween-vibes, unrealistic characters mixed with realistic ones, reading about sibling relationships MOOD: creepy, morbidly goofy Likes Dislikes How the author inserted comedic relief to offset things that were creepy…
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Books, Briefly: On Juneteenth
“Books, Briefly” is featuring non-fiction today… Title: On Juneteenth Author: Annette Gordon-Reed READ IF YOU LIKE: essay collections, American history & issues, biographies, informative reads MOOD: serious and informational Likes Dislikes Individual essay chapters read quickly Lacking history about Juneteenth, unlike what the title suggests Interesting, historical information about the end of slavery and Texas…
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Books, Briefly: Putin’s Russia
“Books, Briefly” is featuring a graphic novel today… Title: Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator Author: Darryl Cunningham READ IF YOU LIKE: graphic novels, world politics and issues, biographies, informative reads MOOD: serious and informational Likes Dislikes Makes Putin’s life and Russian/Eastern European political history manageable to consume (fast read!) Lack of a key…
Archetypes & Anecdotes 