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Her name was Magda.

Death in her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

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I find Ottessa Moshfegh to be incredibly divisive as a writer. Of all her work, I was a little lukewarm on Eileen, but I might reread it soon, and I LOVED her story collection. I actively disliked McGlue, and thought My Year of Rest and Relaxation was amazing. I also really really liked this one. If you didn’t, I get it; she is divisive. So we begin with our narrator Vesta walking her dog in the woods where she lives. She finds a note that cryptically suggests a […]

Sth, I know that woman.

Jazz by Toni Morrison

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CBR12 Bingo – UnCannon This is a reread so my review is going to wander at times and focus on singular parts of the story. I also listened this audiobook while the last time I read it, I read it straight. I also was strangely walking around Richmond as I listened and they’ve been taking down Confederate statues this week and they’ve be scrubbing and cleaning up spaces not Confederate (or linked) also tagged by graffiti, so there’s a funny contrast of what the city […]

The reign of Henry VIII is one of the most fascinating in English history.

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

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I felt like I already knew a lot of this history and it took me a second to figure out why. Well, it’s all pretty readily available, but it just simply occurred to me that between Wolf Hall, The Tudors,  A Man for All Seasons, and Beckett, so much of this material is well-trod for me. That has no bearing on how good and how enjoyable I found this history to be. To be clear, this is a writer who heavily researched this topic, but focuses on the availability of […]

I buy violets for Amy.

Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes

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The sequel to You and continues much of the good work from the first book, as well continuing some of the silliness. While the first book felt like a funny takedown of East Coast Ivy League elites, this one takes on Hollywood. This would mostly be ok and work, but it can’t quite tell if it wants to say something or tell a story at various turns. So I spent a lot of time thinking about what this book is. It’s got some Boogie Nights wrapped […]

Frankly, the news was making me crazy.

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing

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This is an essay and review collection from Olivia Laing who is mostly known for her other nonfiction works, but also for the recent novel Crudo which fictionalizes the life of Kathy Acker, a very Kathy Acker thing to do. Primarily these essays are short and in response to a specific set of commentary parameters set forth by a publication Laing worked for, but the wander away from this later in the collection. The collection is mostly concerned with art, photography, film, and literature criticism, so […]



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