My lovely book exchange goodies, via the wonderful CoffeeShopReader have arrived, and I’m going to be making myself some tea to have with my leftover pie, to celebrate an early NaNoWriMo victory very shortly. Thank you ~ this book is definitely at the top of my TBR mountain!
“The Resistance was the kiss of death, to friends and allies alike.”
Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse
The reading experience of Resistance Reborn is a story of two halves for me. I enjoyed Rebecca Roanhorse’s writing, I find the way she uses a sparring amount of words to build a mood, and from a mood a setting to be incredibly effective, which I’ve enjoyed from her before. On the other hand, though, I wasn’t floored by the actual story covered within the pages of this book. Broadly, in this novel, Poe Dameron, General Leia Organa, Rey, and Finn struggle to rebuild the […]
“Boomerang arrow, Kate — It comes back to you in the end. Boomerang. Respect it.”
Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon by Matt Fraction, David Aja (artist), Annie Wu (illustrator), Chris Eliopolous (letterer)
Hawkeye, Volume 2: Little Hits by Matt Fraction, David Aja (Artist), Francesco Francavilla (Art & Color), Steve Lieber (Artist), Jesse Hamm (Artist), Matt Hollingsworth (Color Artist), Chris Eliopoulos (Letterer)
Before diving into Disney+’s Hawkeye show I decided to pick up the Matt Fraction run from 2012-2016. One of my friends read them as they were releasing and she raved, suggesting them to me then as an entry into the larger comics world, but I took her up on Northanger Abbey instead. In the years since I’ve dipped my toe in, reading Chelsea Cain’s Mockingbird run, a Star War, and deep diving into Saga in all its gorgeous, heartbreaking glory (and I’m eyeing a 2022 […]
I’ll read anything to get some of the magic of The Toast back T-T
Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails by Michelle Markowitz, Caroline Moss
In a nutshell: this book is funny but the premise does wear thin after a while. Fleshed out: there’s some really keen insights on a very specific subset of the world–women in NYC who are “friends” but also not and don’t really have “real careers” through a combination of chutzpah and family wealth and are always into “wellness” and being “woke” but also have cleaners whose nationality and/or name they could not produce if needed. I am lucky to say that I do not know […]
A unique, YA additional to the sparse male friendship genre
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
A while back I was trawling for books about male friendships, which is surprisingly (or not) a pretty tall ask. There’s like, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. If you narrow it further, and look for ownvoices it’s even more sparse. That being said, books about female friendships? DIME A DOZEN, in every flavor you’d like (toxic, childhood, best, broken, lifelong, etc etc). One note that was promising–when looking for stories about male friendships, I did run into a wealth of novels about friendships-or-not-friendships-that-turned-into-love. It’s amazing that the […]
Hilarious but uneven!
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
This book was, ultimately, a bit uneven and as such alternatingly held and lost my interest. The premise is great–it’s not a romance novel, it’s a romance wrapped in a larger story about a woman who has constantly put the feelings of others first and is learning to prioritize herself. It’s beautifully written and evocative and makes you feel. But as it were, I found myself growing less invested in the story of Eva and Shane as the book went on, which is…not what you want […]