And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Everyone's heard of Agatha Christie, and I like mysteries, so I wasn't disappointed when our book club selected: And Then There Were None (1939). I'd read only one other Christie mystery, so I was googling it to figure out if I'd read it before when I came across some troubling information. The … [Read more]
Verity by Colleen Hoover
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
This book brings to mind the concept of "trash relativism" - the idea that while some books have greater literary merit (better writing, depth of themes, strong character development, etc) not everyone reads books for those literary reasons. A lot of people read just to escape, or share in a minor … [Read more]
Rage by Jonathan Kellerman
Years ago I read a Faye Kellerman novel and hated it, which colored my expectations for this one (the two are married and both Faye and Jonathan write detective fiction). Despite my misgivings, this one was sitting on my shelf when I was looking for a Los Angeles setting, so into my reading rotation … [Read more]
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Taleb is an economist who fancies himself an outsider and disruptor, and this 400 page book is his long explanation of a fairly simple idea that he fancies himself as having come up with: that we don’t properly assess the risk of ‘unlikely’ events in our financial system. He characterizes patterns … [Read more]
Season of Love by Helena Greer
Season of Love would not have made its way to my holiday season reading if not for emmalita’s lovely gifting of it to me, but it does check several boxes for my recent reading input: it is a queer romance which unpacks big emotions, specifically grief and trauma responses. Season of Love is also a … [Read more]
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen
This was a warm blanket of a macabre fantasy Romance about life, death, and making yourself actually live your life that I devoured in a day and have spent nearly a week searching my mind for how to review. There are a couple things that have held up the writing, one that it’s a weird book that is … [Read more]
