Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Hot Take (04/2022): Full review to come but like: Wade is a Gary Stu, everything is a Deux Ex Machina, the 80s had more than just male artists/everything. Why does everyone love this so much? Full Review (6/2022): so it's been two months since I read this, and I can't say my feelings on the … [Read more]
The Annotated Pride and Prejudice by David M. Shapard, Jane Austen
Goodreads really wants to slot this in with a regular copy of Pride and Prejudice, and to be fair you are reading a copy of Pride and Prejudice when you read this. In my case, it's been so long since I've read this book and I have watched so many snippets of the 1995 BBC version and the 2005 … [Read more]
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
Oh, gosh, where to start! Language is an endlessly fascinating subject to me. What words we use, where those words came from and why we use the ones we use when we use them. Language is the foundation of culture and is used to include or divide, which seems super obvious but also begs the question … [Read more]
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
I noticed The Vanishing Half ages ago, but there was always a ridiculously long wait for it at the library. I think I first saw it on NPR's Best Books of 2020 and it seemed like a must-read book, so I began it with relatively high expectations. In the end, I was pretty impressed. The novel covers … [Read more]
The Sins of Our Fathers by James S.A. Corey
Glad that I found this novella on Goodreads instead of just the entry for Memory's Legion, which made it seem like I'd re-read all of the Expanse novellas instead of doing what I did, which is run immediately to the end of that book to read this new entry, which ties up the last loose thread (or, … [Read more]
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Lincoln Highway was the first Trans-continental highway for cars in the United States. Between Laramie, WY and Cheyenne, WY on I-80, there is a bust of Abraham Lincoln that originally marked the highest point of elevation on the Lincoln Highway between New York and San Francisco. None of that … [Read more]
