Nonfiction November Review: The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, Kate Moore Published May 2nd, 2017 In America during the early half of the twentieth-century, radium was all the rage. It was heralded as a health-giving substance and featured in products such as: cosmetics, lingerie, tonic water, toothpaste, and wrist-watches. It is the latter-along with wartime...

Thanksgiving Readathon Sign-Up and TBR

This Wednesday kicks off the Thanksgiving Readathon hosted by Ottavia at Novels and Nonfiction and Jackie from Death at Tsundoku. It's a laid-back readathon with the goal of reading as much as you can from Wednesday, November 22nd through Sunday, November 26th. It looks like the the cold I've been fighting off is finally catching...

WWW Wednesday- November 15, 2017

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Taking on a World of Words. The three W’s are: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next?   Currently Reading: I didn't get much reading done last week, so I'm hoping I'll make up for it...

Nonfiction November: Nonfiction Books On My Shelves and Tentative TBR

Nonfiction November is an event hosted by Booktubers Gemma of Non Fic Books and Olive of abookolive,with the goal of encouraging everyone to read more nonfiction books. This year, they have four loosely defined categories, so I thought it would be fun to see what (unread) books I have on my shelves that would work for...

WWW Wednesdays- November 1, 2017

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Taking on a World of Words. The three W’s are: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? Currently Reading:     I'm only a few pages into If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio, and I'm really...

#Victober: 8 Nonfiction Books About the Victorian Era

Since #Victober is wrapping up and Nonfiction November is about to kick off, I thought this would be the perfect time to highlight some Nonfiction Reads About the Victorian Era. This is a fascinating period of history; one full of rapid change, progress and innovations that make our own modern lives possible. Some aspects of...