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The Movie is Better than the Book

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger

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I have watched “The Devil Wears Prada” more times than I can remember. It is a fun movie with a great cast. One of my favorites. So I finally decided to pick up the book, under the theory that the book is always better than the movie. I wish I hadn’t. From the beginning it was clear that this was not going to be the same. Miranda is largely the same, maybe a little more psychotic. Emily is much more sniveling. But my biggest problem […]

“Hatred is the sincerest form of flattery.”

If We Were Villains: A Novel by M.L. Rio

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“If We Were Villains” tells the story of Oliver Marks, finishing his ten-year sentence in prison for murder, met at the gate by Joseph Colborne, the detective on the case. Never believing Oliver was guilty, Colburne wants to know what actually happened all those years ago, back when Oliver was a lower-income student on scholarship at the Dellecher Classical Conservatory, an exclusive and cliquish art school. In on an acting scholarship, Oliver joined the acting set and their obsession with all things Shakespeare, where he […]

I Have Seen the Nipple on Your Soul

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

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You know those workdays where you get a lot done in the morning, and you think to yourself, “I’ve done enough, I think I can take it easy this afternoon”? Well, consider that my attitude for the rest of 2022, as my greatest achievement of the year is behind me: I finished this damn book. I’ve wanted to read Haruki Murakami for a long time, and I was so intrigued by the premise of this book: A woman, Aomame, begins to discover subtle differences between […]

When Darkness Yawns

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It’s been a stressful few weeks (months?) and I’ve been trying to escape into audiobooks. This time there was no escape. It was a slog. Why did I finish it? I’m not really sure. Probably I didn’t feel like looking for something else to listen to. This is a garbage-y vampire novel and lives up to all its stereotypes. There’s a woman, small and so beautiful it hurts. There’s a vampire, manly and muscly and so beautiful it hurts. There’s a curse, a spirit of […]

A Wicked Mess (or Harlan Coben, I apologize!)

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A couple months ago I read the latest Harlan Coben standalone and though I enjoyed it, I felt like Coben was phoning it in and that his suspense novels had started to blur in my head. Then, I read this novel, plucked off the e-shelf at my local library, and I want to issue an apology. I’m not sure I fully appreciated the skill with which Coben constructs his narratives until I read this schlocky mess. I almost stopped halfway through this book, because it […]

Secrets Are Bad,Yo

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Well, Liane Moriarty finally burned me. Of the three books that I’ve read by her, this one had me saying, “No, no human being would make those decisions!” And then I’d growl at my screen and worry my husband who was trying to sleep because I just wasn’t happy that I was stuck reading this book.  There’s very little that can actually be said about the book’s plot that wouldn’t give it all away so I’ll be vague. A woman finds out that her husband […]



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