Honest and unfiltered book reviews from an over-caffeinated, sleep-deprived nurse and her never ending TBR list..
{ Trigger warning: abuse, sexual assault, suicide, violence } Three Women by Lisa Taddeo is a collective portrait of three women's lives after Taddeo spent eight years interviewing them and talking with them about desire. Maggie is 23 and has gone to trial with her high school teacher with whom she was in a relationship [...]
"Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty one.” The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson takes an in depth look at the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden and the covers the subsequent trial that followed in 1892. [...]
Monsoon Mansion by Cinelle Barnes is a memoir about her experiences growing up in the Philippines before she immigrated to America. I read this as part of an Instagram buddy read for the Fierce Females Book Club that I am a part of where we read a book each month written by a female author. [...]
Stories From the Tenth-Floor Clinic: A Nurse Practitioner Remembers by Marianna Crane is non-fiction collection of anecdotal stories from her time working as a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner in Chicago. I had the privilege of obtaining an advance readers copy from NetGalley, She Writes Press and Caitlin Hamilton Marketing. Marianna was one of the first nurse [...]
