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I’ve talked myself around to being really annoyed by this book.

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton

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I wanted to enjoy this book more than I did. It’s not bad, it’s just very… first novel-y. Which is to say that the story has the sense that the author spent a lot of her younger years thinking about it and tries to cram in four different stories. Have you ever written an email and forgotten a word or two but your brain knows the words are supposed to be there, so it just inserts them when you proofread and then you send the email […]

Sounds like a cult…

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

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Oh, gosh, where to start! Language is an endlessly fascinating subject to me. What words we use, where those words came from and why we use the ones we use when we use them. Language is the foundation of culture and is used to include or divide, which seems super obvious but also begs the question of why? Why do certain words, in certain contexts evoke a particular response for certain people? Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell doesn’t attempt to provide an answer but […]

Going West by Heading East

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

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The Lincoln Highway was the first Trans-continental highway for cars in the United States. Between Laramie, WY and Cheyenne, WY on I-80, there is a bust of Abraham Lincoln that originally marked the highest point of elevation on the Lincoln Highway between New York and San Francisco. None of that is relevant in The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, I just like the fun factedness of it all. Eighteen-year-old Emmett and eight-year-old Billy Watson have nothing to hold them to the farm in Nebraska. Their father […]

Unmasked, in which “pellow” appears four times

Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes and Robin Gaby Fisher

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It is super weird to say you’re a true-crime fan. What exactly is there to be a fan of? There are layers and layers of grossness and weirdness. The story-telling can be exploitative and callous. Someone’s pain is being mined for entertainment. That being said, I am a consumer of true-crime content. I’ve heard some people talk about their fascination with true-crime as a way to process their own anxiety about life’s uncertainty. And others who want to get inside the heads of the perpetrators to […]

A Study in Scarlet

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

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I grew up, and still live, in a state with a significant population of Mormons. There are particular towns where many of the families share the same few names and it is not uncommon to see wedding announcements with the bride and groom having the same last name. In the way of small towns everywhere, you just sort of know the things you know about some people and some places. I went out with a couple of wrestlers while I was in high school and […]

A Dead Djinn in Cairo

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark

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  I accidentally read this series out of order. I read The Haunting of Tram Car 015 sometime last year and sort of pieced my way through the rest in the series until I reached A Dead Djinn in Cairo, which is the first book, this spring. It says something about P. Djèlí Clark’s world-building that each story felt standalone and yet very much grounded in a fully realized world. Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’awari investigates disturbances between the residents of Cairo and the djinn they share their […]



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