The Love Hypothesis Ali Hazelwood ♥ Hypothesis Although not that experienced with reading romance novels, I might like one if it started out as Star Wars fan fiction.
The Love Hypothesis Hypothesis
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
My first DNF
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
I wanted to love this book. On the face of it, it ticks off a lot of boxes that appeal to me. It could be that my mind is unfocused right now because a lot is going on at home, but I really think there is a problem with this book. I’d never heard of it before the movie came out and maybe I know why. It’s tedious and pedantic. Poor Things is a kind of Mary Shelley Frankenstein story where the “monster” is a […]
Murderbot and ART: relationships, trauma, and planets are the worst
Network Effect by Martha Wells
System Collapse by Martha Wells
Note: This is a spoiler-free review for Network Effect and System Collapse. If you’ve read Network Effect dive into both reviews! However, if you haven’t read Network Effect do not continue on to the review of System Collapse. In order to discuss System Collapse I need to include information that is learned in Network Effect (which is kind of spoiler-ish if you haven’t read it yet). If you have not read Network Effect yet, please enjoy its review. When you’re finished come back for my review of System Collapse! […]
Eileen: when being unlikeable is your personality
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
mood music: twilight – Bôa My first read of 2024…a disappointment. I had high hopes as it was adapted into a film starring Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie, but it was tough even at a short 197 pages on ebook. Eileen is narrated by the aforementioned woman, now in her seventies, as she recounts her last week in her hometown, a small snowy city in New England she calls X-ville. Raised by two alcoholic parents, twenty-four-year-old Eileen is a very miserable person with a love […]
“change the dedication / from revolution to revelation”
Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2006) by Marisha Pessl
At some point as a student I came across French theorist Roland Barthes’s ‘The Death of the Author’ (1967), which suggests (in translation) that a text ought to be read as a “tissue of quotations” (instead of a single isolated product of a clearly identifiable authorial intention; I paraphrase and summarise wildly here). I vaguely thought of “tissue” initially as the kind of tissue you’d sneeze into, woven to be flimsy and fragile and disposable. Later, I thought of “tissue” as in the weavings of […]
A fairy tale turned horror story
Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran
Snow, Glass, Apples was a gift from cannonballer Ardaigle for the CBR15 Holiday Book Exchange. I’d put it on my wish list because I’ve enjoyed the Gaiman novels that I’ve read so far and the art for this short story looked (and truly is) gorgeous. As you might guess from the title, this is a version of Snow White, but it is not like any Snow White I’ve ever read. Like the works of Angela Carter and Helen Oyeyemi, this is an adult fairy tale, […]
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