Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson
These days it seems the only books I have time for are audiobooks. In a desperate search for another audiobook at the library, I found Broken (in the best possible way) (2021) by Jenny Lawson. This is my first experience with Lawson, although she is a New York Times bestselling author and famous … [Read more]
Essential Bukowski: Poetry by Charles Bukowski
there’s only one poet in this room tonight only one poet in this town tonight maybe only one real poet in this country tonight and that’s me - Charles Bukowski in Raymond Carver’s poem “You Don’t Know What Love Is.” Charles Bukowski was a prolific poet, an inveterate drunk and womanizer, and a … [Read more]
Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
There is a place way down in Los Angeles they call the Nakamota Tower! And it been the ruin of one woman, and now I can't think of a rhyme. Anyway, Michael Crichton is a moralizing asshole a lot of the time. It would be one thing if the novels would just speak for themselves. They're … [Read more]
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Thirtysomething Nora Seed has failed at everything in life. None of the careers she’d envisioned for herself have panned out. Her relationships have faltered and fizzled out. Her cat has died. Her brother is no longer speaking to her. Shortly before midnight she decides to end her life but instead … [Read more]
Dark Rise by C. S. Pascat
I know C.S. Pascat from the Fence comics, a lighter queer romance set in a boys school fencing team. This is no that, mostly. Dark Rise is a chosen one story in which there is a secret organization fighting a secret battle to stop the great evil of the past from coming back. This is a standard … [Read more]
Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
In Foundryside, what starts out as a heist caper gone horribly wrong becomes a heist caper tale to save the world in which a band on unlikely companions must put aside differences to stop someone from achieving immortality in a destructive way. Sancia is the thief and the main perspective for much … [Read more]
