Girl Walks into a Bar... by Rachel Dratch
This is the third memoir I've read by a female Saturday Night Live castmember from the 2000s, after Tina Fey's Bossypants and Amy Poehler's Yes, Please. Sadly, this is clearly the bronze medalist of the group. (Fey's book is far and away the best of the three.) Dratch was on SNL for … [Read more]
A Marvelous Light: The Last Binding Book #1 by Freya Marske
CBR18 Bingo: Craft - Edwin must hone his craft as a spellcaster as he is not as naturally gifted as his other family members. Blyth gave him an exceedingly stubborn look. God save Edwin from the idiotic flower of English manhood. ― Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light You could have been done … [Read more]
The Rose of Versailles by Riyoko Ikeda
Cbr18 Bingo - Wealth: It portrays graphic depictions of the events and people who caused the French revolution. The Rose of Versailles by Riyoko Ikeda is usually the story of Marie Antoinette. As the story progressed, her bodyguard Oscar went from the deuteragonist to co-protagonist to … [Read more]
The Twelve Loves of Christmas by Alexandria Bellefleur; Elise Bryant; Olivia Dade; Alexis Daria; Sarah Hogle; Zakiya N. Jamal; Rebecca Jenshak; Jessica Joyce; Susan Lee; Joss Richard; M. A. Wardell; Rebekah Weatherspoon
I do love an anthology of short stories, so I grabbed The Twelve Loves of Christmas, as soon as I saw it on NetGalley. In addition to being a collection of short stories, it has stories by three of my favorite authors - Olivia Dade, Alexis Daria, and Rebekah Weatherspoon. There are also stories by … [Read more]
The INFJ Writer by Lauren Sapala
Elder millennials can't have cool mid-life crises because we're all too broke. Instead of getting a hair transplant and a Corvette, I got a mental breakdown and a neurodivergence diagnosis. The doctor who did my testing recommended that I look into specific issues that "gifted" and "intense" people … [Read more]
She Followed the Moon Back to Herself by Amanda Lovelace
The title She Followed the Moon Back to Herself by Amanda Lovelace is the first poetry book I read cover to cover without stopping too long in between poems (just to catch my breath and not have poems bleed into each other) or jumping to the end to find out “what happens” in a while. Now, this is … [Read more]
