Bram the Bookworm

  • 101 Books: A Year in Reading Ranked Through Genres

    How Many Books Did I Read? I read 101 books this year! This was a personal record that was really exciting to achieve. I listened to many books as audiobooks, which made reading more accessible to me when life got busy. Let’s take a look at the main genres I read and my top books…

  • Chanel Miller’s Know My Name: An Unflinching Truth (Book Review) 

    Chanel Miller’s memoir, Know My Name, is the most powerful memoir I’ve read. Not only is her story so important and vulnerable, she wrote it phenomenally. Her victim statement, released in 2016 by BuzzFeed and reprinted by other major news sources, reached a wide audience. It was viewed by eleven million people within four days,…

  • The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (Book Review)

    Introduction The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline is a YA Indigenous, futuristic, dystopian novel. The text delves into an assortment of themes including humanity, dreams, community, and fear. It is a coming of age novel that follows Frenchie, an Indigenous teenager on the run from the recruiters, or Marrow Thieves. Despite the title, the novel…

  • Dreadnought by April Daniels: Trans Superheroes (Book Review) 

    About The Author Daniels lacks an expansive online presence, so my information is limited. She is a transgender woman, and Dreadnought was her first book. The Dreadnought series consists of a second book, Sovereign, and a third in progress.  Summary  Danielle (Danny) Tozer struggles to live with her appearance as a closeted trans kid. When…

  • Three Books in the BWCA (Book Reviews) 

    On a recent week-long camping trip to the BWCA with my family, I was reading almost every moment I wasn’t canoeing, portaging, setting up camp, or swimming. Throughout that time, I managed to read three wonderful books (1152 pages total). As follows are short reviews of them.  The Rest of Us Just Live Here About…