SFBA Book Club

bluestocking reviewed Sabriel (The Abhorsen Trilogy) by Garth Nix

Garth Nix: Sabriel (The Abhorsen Trilogy) (Paperback, 1997, Eos)

Ever since she was a tiny child, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the …

Review of 'Sabriel (The Abhorsen Trilogy)' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

I would’ve been absolutely insufferable if I read this as a kid. This was such a lush, unexpected read and I’m looking forward to the rest of the series.

bluestocking reviewed Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

No cover — Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl (EBook, 2012, Crown Publishing)

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s …

Review of 'Gone Girl' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

Gillian Flynn really just kills it every time

bluestocking rated The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: 3 stars

Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (AudiobookFormat, 2015, Random House Audio)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken …

bluestocking rated Practical Magic: 3 stars

Alice Hoffman: Practical Magic (1998, Berkley)

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic Series, #1)

For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts …

bluestocking rated The Joy Luck Club: 4 stars

Amy Tan, Gwendoline Yeo: The Joy Luck Club (EBook, 2008, Phoenix Audio)

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Gwendoline Yeo

bluestocking rated The Bell Jar: 2 stars

Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar (EBook, 2016, HarperAudio)

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- …

bluestocking rated Trust Kids!: 4 stars

Trust Kids! by carla bergman, Matt Hern

bluestocking rated Gathering Moss: 4 stars

Robin Wall Kimmerer: Gathering Moss (AudiobookFormat, 2018, Tantor Audio)

Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Gathering Moss is a series of personal essays introducing the reader to the life cycle, the ecology, and the natural …

bluestocking rated Rickety Stitch and the gelatinous goo, vol. 1 : the road to Epoli: 3 stars

Ben Costa: Rickety Stitch and the gelatinous goo, vol. 1 : the road to Epoli (Hardcover, 2017, Alfred A. Knopf)

Rickety Stitch and the gelatinous goo, vol. 1 : the road to Epoli by Ben Costa

bluestocking rated The Jungle: 3 stars

Grover Gardner, Upton Sinclair: The Jungle (AudiobookFormat, 2011, Blackstone Audio, Inc., Blackstone Audiobooks)

The Jungle by Grover Gardner, Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the …

bluestocking rated Legends & Lattes: 5 stars

Travis Baldree: Legends & Lattes (EBook, 2022, Cryptid Press)

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Legends & Lattes)

Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes out of the warrior’s life …

bluestocking rated The Secret History: 4 stars

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college …

bluestocking rated Joyful militancy: 5 stars

Nick Montgomery: Joyful militancy (2017)

Joyful militancy by Nick Montgomery (Anarchist interventions -- 07)

"Why do radical movements and spaces sometimes feel laden with fear, anxiety, suspicion, self-righteousness, and competition? Montgomery and Bergman call …