Best Kindle Unlimited Books (43 Books You’ve Heard of) 2018
I was looking into Kindle Unlimited recently and thought it might be useful to do a post on the better-known titles in the catalog. If you’re not familiar with it, Kindle Unlimited gives you unlimited access to over a million books. The catch is that it’s limited to selected titles, many of which may be …
The Snow Child
“Like many fairy tales, there are many different ways it is told, but it always begins the same. An old man and an old woman live happily in their small cottage in the forest, but for one sorrow: they have no children of their own. One winter’s day, they build a girl of snow.” The …
10 Best Christmas-Themed Books and Holiday Reads
The holidays are a great time to catch up on reading, ideally with a cup of hot chocolate in hand. (If you’ve never made real hot chocolate — i.e. hot chocolate made from blended/whisked milk and melted chocolate, not just cocoa mix — it’s worth doing at least once! Do it as a treat for …
15 Inspiring Gifts for Women and Girls
Welcome to Part I of The 2018 Book Lover’s Holiday Gift Guide! I knew the first gift guide I wanted to do was for all the great inspirational stuff about awesome women that’s been cropping up. Let’s face it, this has been a tough couple of years. A lot of progress has been made, it’s …
Bad Blood
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou tells the story of Theranos, a biotech startup that had a staggering rise to a close to $10 billion valuation and an even more dramatic fall. The very short version of this review: I was really impressed by this book. Being in …