The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
When I saw this title at Target, I immediately grabbed it, read the opening lines, and added it to my to-read list. A town full of people suddenly starting to all turn black one day? I wanna see where he goes with this. Yet, with all that potential, all the doors you open up to yourself with that … [Read more]
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
For good reason, a lot of people hate this book, and Charles Bukowski at large. The book is very hateable for a lot of reasons. It's often misogynistic, slightly less so racist, but still plenty. The main character is a real piece of shit. He rapes someone in the first third of a novel, and it's … [Read more]
Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher
While I enjoyed this last entry in the Saint of Steel series (especially because we do see our favorites from the prior two books!), in a nutshell I think it suffered from 1) being more of a standalone story (with the smooth skin man issue being solved in the prior novel) and 2) the moral of the … [Read more]
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
We've had a bunch of timeloop movies and stories by this time, but they always end up more or less doing the same thing. Working toward fixing the problem of the timeloop, which is almost always one single day. Even the game Deathloop, which I loved, did more or less the same thing. In this novel … [Read more]
Family of Liars by E. Lockhart
Right out of the gate, I've gotta be honest and say I forget most of We Were Liars, the book this is the prequel story to. I distinctly remember the grand reveal, the "we were liars" moment, catching me wildly off guard, but I only have the loosest idea of what occurred in those pages. Thankfully, … [Read more]
Questland by Carrie Vaughn
What if the world you play in at your DnD table could be made real, and you could go on vacation and hang out there? Shut up and take my money, eccentric billionaire! Plot: Harris Lang, eccentric billionaire, has a problem. He has invested untold sums in a Jurassic Park-esque private island that … [Read more]
