I believe I reviewed this for CBR5, but it’s been a while, and I didn’t listen to the audiobook last time, so here we are again. “I’m only marginally qualified to be giving advice at all. My body mass index is certainly not ideal, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars because I never have cash on me, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie Sale section. I’m kind of a […]
“The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.”
I feel like this book might be kind of polarizing, with its alternating viewpoints/timelines and its quirky quirkiness. But overall, it worked pretty well for me — especially the parts told by Noah. So, at 13, twins Jude and Noah are still amazingly close, despite navigating a turbulent family life. They’re both artists (he draws, she sculpts) and plan to attend the same art school. But then something (or a bunch of somethings) happens, and 3 years later they barely speak. The plot at 13 […]
This book was so weird/cool/strange/confusing/fascinating
This was some excellent science fiction, if you’re in the market! Six Wakes starts on the spaceship Dormire, sometime in the future, where cloning has become a basic way of life. The book opens with the rules of cloning, including rules against suicide (with the exception of doctor-approved euthanasia), outlining inheritance law and banning certain genetic modifications. It’s also illegal to have more than one clone in existence at a time. So on the spaceship Dormine, we have six (surprisingly well-fleshed out) characters, all of whom are reawakening as […]
“Well, unless I’m sitting atop you, what I weigh is really none of your business.”
This is another book Overdrive recommended for Women’s History Month, and yet another body-positive memoir I’ve read recently. I’d never heard of Brittany Gibbons prior to reading this, but I enjoyed it. It’s not really a book about being a “fat girl”, like the cover implies, but it’s definitely about dealing with a crappy childhood and learning to embrace yourself. She also REALLY hated college, and talks about that a lot here. “First things first, I’m going to tell you why I’m fat, because I […]
“Everything’s a haunted house in today’s America. Everything’s in need of an exorcism.”
So the only other book I’ve tried by Seanan McGuire was Every Heart a Doorway. That book was fascinating — it had a lot of really neat ideas and was well-executed. I remember that my main complaint was that it was too short. This book also had some really cool ideas, about ghosts and witches and the dead. But I thought the execution was poor and again, it just wasn’t long enough to really support the story. So this is about a dead girl named […]
Y’all are going to love this one
Okay, speaking directly to those of y’all who love Mary Roach and that book about being a woman in Victorian times — just go read this book. It is by far the funniest book about plagues that I have ever read. And I am saying that as a person who has read multiple books about plagues. Jennifer Wright, who also wrote that book about bad breakups throughout time that most of y’all didn’t seem to like very much, wrote Get Well Soon about 14 different plagues throughout […]
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