Deconstructed by Liz Talley
I don’t know what else to say besides this was bad. Really bad. I wanted to like it since I did like the one lead, but the book just dragged on forever and I ceased to care about Cricket or Ruby. Towards the 80 percent mark I started to skim because I was just getting fed up at how boring and tedious the book had become. I think the book could have been stronger if we just followed Cricket honestly. Going back and forth between […]
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
Ok this one is tough because I am not entirely sure what happened here. There is a lot of caps and exclamation marks and questions in this review. I guess I had some feelings. First, I think an audiobook might have been a mistake because there are points where I am honestly confused about what happened. Yes, I was cleaning while I listened to this but I do that with most audiobooks and am not usually so lost. It felt like multiple plot lines or […]
Somebody's Home by Kaira Rouda
Plot: A quiet neighborhood. A lovely home. A promising new beginning. In a heartbeat everything can change in this propulsive novel of suspense by USA Today bestselling author Kaira Rouda. Julie Jones has left her suffocating marriage. With her teenage daughter, Jess, she’s starting over. Their new house in Oceanside is the first step toward a new life. Even if it does come with the unexpected. The previous owners, a pastor and his wife, have left something—or rather someone—behind… Tom Dean has a bitter hatred […]
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
“I’m thinking of taking my family and getting out of this country soon, sometime over the next couple of years. It’s cold and it’s mean-spirited, and I don’t like it here anymore.” Surprisingly, the above quotation does not come from V for Vendetta, but from Alan Moore’s 1988 introduction to the graphic novel for the original DC Comics run. At the time, Margaret Thatcher was entering her third term as Prime Minster of the U.K., and Moore was despairing about, among other things, the treatment of […]
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt
Reading has been my self-care since I was a little girl. Sometime in March 2020, that self-care lost much of its effectiveness. I still read but my ability to retain much of what I read, or enjoy it, faded. I fell into re-reading my old favorites. I also found many of my usual podcast escapes stressed me out. So I began to look for something that reminded me that people weren’t, in fact, the worst. Enter 99% Invisible, the podcast. I burned through episodes while […]
Little Foxes Took Up Matches by Katya Kazbek
Mitya is not good at math, as you can see. But he’s good at imagination. Mitya is utterly convinced that no one has ever looked at two halves long enough, or attentively enough. Mitya has some stories for you. Much like Mitya himself, this novel contains multitudes. Katya Kazbek, who often works as a translator, holds the door open for the curious reader with snippets of fairy tales. Sometimes these tales are her takes on mythology, and sometimes they are the mythology of being a […]
