3/5 stars The Blue Hour , by Paula Hawkins (2024) TW: Domestic violence When I picked up this book I couldn't remember what else Paula Hawkins had written, but thought I remembered liking her. As it turns out, I was half right. Hawkins wrote Girl on the Train , which I loved, but also Into the Water , which I was pretty luke-warm on. My biggest complaint with that book is that while I enjoyed the mystery while reading it, it was utterly forgettable. With Blue Hour I feel similarly. I think...

5/5 stars A Sorceress Comes to Call , by T. Kingfisher (2024) TW: Emotional/psychological abuse I didn't realize when I read this that it is sort of a re-telling of a Grimm's tale called "The Goose Girl," which I'm not familiar with. But having read a bit about that story, I can pretty confidently say that this is a very loose interpretation, and that for all that the Brothers Grimm fairytales are dark and often disturbing, I think A Sorceress Comes to Call takes the creepy factor to...

3/5 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murder & the Birth of the FBI , by David Grann (2017) TW: Hate crimes, systemic racism and dehumanization, violence/murder, alcoholism, forced institutionalization, forced removal This is just one of many, many stories about the ways in which the U.S. government screwed over Native populations. One of many stories the history books gloss over. It's definitely depressing, but, in my view, incredibly important to learn about. The Osage Native Americans...