https://killingmykindle.com/2018/05/14/episode-1-19-going-insane-got-no-brain/ Wherein I review: 67. The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo #3) by Rick Riordan 68. Deranged: The Shocking True Store of America’s Most Fiendish Killer by Harold Schechter 69. Lies, Damned Lies, and History (St. Mary’s Chronicles #7) by Jodi Taylor 70. Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3) by Brandon Sanderson 71. Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh Lots of crazies up in this piece. Apollo finds his third Emperor. Harold Schechter scribbles about Albert Fish. Jodi Taylor soldiers on through the time travel. […]
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Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh was nominated for the Booker Prize this year. Her novel was interesting, divisive, weird and sad. Her place is somewhere in between Flannery O’Connor and Shirley Jackson, with some Sylvia Plath thrown in. If that makes sense to you and appeals to you, here you go. If you told me you hated this book I wouldn’t hold it against you. I wouldn’t even try to argue with you. It feels both purposely and decidedly divisive. But! If you like it, I think you’ll […]