Amie's Book Reviews

“How do we stitch together a society severed by incendiary rhetoric and callous political opportunism? At a time when it’s tempting to see our neighbors as others rather than as people like us, how do we even begin to care for ourselves and our communities?”
― Brandon J. Wolf, A Place for Us: A Memoir

“Our world is designed for extroverts. We place a high value on those with a seemingly effortless knack for socializing. Magnetic personalities are deified, while the more muted among us are bulldozed in conversation. We turn every email into a video call and race to fill silence with sound, indicting quiet as “awkward” without considering its necessity.”
― Brandon J. Wolf, A Place for Us: A Memoir

“Tyler’s chest tightened and her heart pounded through her sweater. Pull yourself together. It was just a peck on the lips, remember. She held her palm against her eye to stop it from twitching, a tell that she was freaking out.”
― Hunter Snow, Rock Crush and Roll

“Becoming one with the wave is about as authentic and personally harmonizing an experience as you can get in these phony days of Auto-Tune.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun