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I was not expecting to feel personally victimised by a Rainbow Rowell novel

Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell

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This may be a 3.5 star book, but I’m not actually sure right now. Thank you to William Morrow and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is out on April 14th. Cherry’s husband, Tom, is in Los Angeles, working on turning his web comic-turned extremely successful graphic novel, Thursday, into a movie. His semi-autobiographical comic, which happens to have a caricatured version of Cherry in it, who is called Baby. Now that there are multiple trailers, even complete strangers recognise […]

Whooo boy…

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If my last book (The Fireman) surprised me with relevance to our current political climate when I was looking for escapism, this one had the exact opposite effect.  I bought the book on remainder on the strength of Shriver’s work, having loved Double Fault, The Post-Birthday World, and of course, We Need to Talk About Kevin (thank god I read that one before getting pregnant). I didn’t so much as look at the back cover and had no clue as to the book’s subject matter, […]



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