Blood and Fire, Smoke and Ice

A Themed Drink for The Dimension Door Podcast, Season 1 Episode 15This is a throwback to a cocktail I created last year for S1.E15 of The Dimension Door Podcast: “Return to Heldren From Whence You Came.” While this cocktail was inspired by...

Concluding My Challenged Books Challenge

Back in April, I read the American Library Association’s list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2020, and I decided that I was going to read and review all ten of those books. As I made my way through these books, I took the time to think deeply about each...

Elizabeth Reviews: The Hate U Give

The Hate U Giveby Angie ThomasGenre: realistic fiction, YAFirst published 2017 Khalil drops the brush in the door and cranks up his stereo, blasting an old rap song Daddy has played a million times. I frown. “Why you always listening to that...

Elizabeth Reviews: The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eyeby Toni MorrisonGenre: literary fiction​First published 1970 The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because they were having temporary difficulty adjustitng to the cutbacks at the plant. They lived there because they were poor and black, and...

Elizabeth Reviews: Of Mice and Men

 Of Mice and Menby John SteinbeckGenre: novella, fiction, tragedyFirst published 1937 Candy cried, “Sure they all want it. Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. Jus’ som’thin’ that was his. Somethin’ he could live on and...