Summer is a good time for some fun with book titles. While you slather your body parts with sunscreen, let's insert some body parts into book titles. Change one word in a book title to a body part to make a fun new title. Here are some of mine: Lady Chatterley’s Liver The Armpit and the … [Read more]
A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8) by Matt Dinniman
I think this is in my top three of the series. The ending was one of the wildest things I've ever read in a book. But way too much happened here, and I have way too many thoughts to sum up my feelings, so we're going to bullet point this one with things that I'm thinking of off the top of my … [Read more]
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
CBR18 Bingo - joker: because some call them the space cowboy… Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky is the first book in the Final Architecture series. I see his work recommended a lot and I think I know his work. Then I realize I'm thinking of an imaginary person who is part Pyotr Ilyich … [Read more]
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
What I've learned from dystopian/speculative fiction books, including this one, is that the revolution may not be televised, but the human rights abuses, the cruelty, the inhumanity, the degradation, and the state-sponsored violence will be streamed to the masses. On its face, Chain-Gang … [Read more]
Tradwife by Michelle Brandon
I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. I don't know what to say. It's going to be really hard to not say a lot that spoils this book, but I have so many questions and ultimately feel dissatisfied with how Brandon went about ending this. And the reveals/twists … [Read more]
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I read the hardcover of Daisy Jones & The Six back when it first came out and ever since I've been curious if the audiobook would've been a better experience, so when I saw it was available from my library I decided to give it a listen. For anyone unfamiliar, although it is fiction, Daisy … [Read more]
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett
Bingo Square: Justice (there’s systemic oppression, a character unjustly punished for crime, ideas about legality vs morality) Southern Lit Book club is starting back up for the fall session and this was the first book. While I enjoyed The Help when it came out, I also think the later critiques … [Read more]
