Where to begin? I guess I’ll simply come out and say it: this is, without any doubt in my mind, one of the worst books I have ever read. We’re talking to the point that even one star is too gracious, which is why I have decided to leave this review as “unrated.” In other words, I give this book literally zero stars and wish I could simply ctrl+z the memory of it from my brain, because I spent all last night after finishing it finding […]

I have to wonder how pissed Melissa Broder was when The Shape of Water came out. Not so much that it exists, but that it became such a thing. Because her book was almost definitely all done and in the can. Anyway, this is an otherwise kind of formulaic “Fear of Flying” kind of breakup novel about a grad student who has an unfinished dissertation about Sappho’s poetry trying to figure out how to spend her final summer before her funding is pulled. She moves […]