The Night Shift by Alex Finlay
New Jersey, New Year’s Eve 1999. A skeleton crew - four high school girls and their only slightly older manager - work the graveyard shift at a Blockbuster’s. The girls gossip and skirt their duty. Their manager - kindly, wearily and ineffectively - tries to get them to do their jobs, but the girl’s … [Read more]
The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson & the Story that Sparked the Civil War by Jared Brock
My boss ordered a free desk copy of The Road to Dawn for his class, and when it didn't arrive on time, he bought it himself. As usually happens, the desk copy ended up arriving at the same time as the Amazon book, and he gave me the free copy. It's been sitting on my bookshelf behind my desk at work … [Read more]
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Years and years ago, I watched the Studio Ghibli production of Howl’s Moving Castle, and enjoyed it, as I enjoy most of their films. But I never read the book, and it wasn’t really on my radar, until I was scrolling endlessly through Libby looking for a new audio book. As luck would have it, I was … [Read more]
Partner Track by Cat Wynn
I picked up Partner Track partly because the cover is so objectively terrible I felt like they were trying to keep me from reading the book. But I had also heard that even though it looks like it takes place in a megachurch, the book was high heat. The book does have a lot of sex and does not take … [Read more]
Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
Meaty by Samantha Irby
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
Wow, No Thank You I first heard of Wow, No Thank You right after it came out in March 2020, when some of my friends talked about ordering it from our local feminist bookstore, Women and Children First. They raved about how funny Samantha Irby is, and how fun it was to read a book by someone … [Read more]
Darkwater: Voices from the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois
This is commonly listed as an autobiography, and I suppose in most ways it is. It does contain several autobiographical sections in it, but these are interspersed with songs and poems, as well as essays about a variety of topics. This feels to me a lot like The Souls of Black Folks in this way, … [Read more]
