You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon
Best for: Fat people looking for solidarity and words they can use when faced with anti-fat bias. Thinner people who need to learn some truths. In a nutshell: Writer and podcaster Gordon shared 20 well-researched essays tackling myths related to fatness and anti-fat bias. Worth … [Read more]
Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer - Vol 1 by Casey Gilly
I'm currently in the midst of a tandem Buffy/Angel rewatch, while listening to the episode-by-episode companion podcasts Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Angel on Top. It's turned into quite the commitment and I feel very immersed into the Buffyverse once more. It feels a bit like coming … [Read more]
Ghost 19 by Simone St. James
If The Woman in the Window and the Exorcism of Sara May had a baby, it might be something like Ghost 19...something like. I haven't actually read the Woman in the Window, but I saw the movie with Amy Adams and then I saw the even better The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the … [Read more]
Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day - how fitting, then, to review this book - an otherworldly almost fable, told in part by a haunted house on legs. This is not a world wholly immersed in fantasy; instead this is a work of magical realism, the kind where events both glorious but also, and maybe … [Read more]
Bellwether by Connie Willis
Bellwether was written in 1997 by Connie Willis, but seems very current. It's considered science fiction, but frankly, I don't think it really is since everything in it could actually happen. Set in a big corporation called HiTek, it is told from the point of view of Sandra, a researcher trying to … [Read more]
Love All by Elizabeth Jane Howard
"He looked at what he could see of her face--half turned away from him but unmistakably downcast--and tried another tack." This is one of the later of the Elizabeth Jane Howard books, and well, to my horror, I listened to the audiobook not realizing it was an abridged version. Sigh. This always … [Read more]
