I really enjoyed this book, both before and after the bizarre twist that occurs. Reading some other reviews on Goodreads, it seems like most people either loved the twist, too, or let it destroy their opinion of the book. I personally felt the twist was hinted at well enough through the first part to make it less shocking and more expected, but I’m also reading The Rook right now, so my head’s in a weird place. If you’re at all interested in reading this book, I […]
“Life is rarely about what happened; it’s mostly about what we think happened.”
I was a little torn on rating this book, because I really liked a few of the essays, kind of hated a couple, and felt indifferent towards most of the rest. My indifference, however, stemmed mostly from the fact that Klosterman’s pop culture world runs about 5 to 10 years ahead of mine, so much of what he discusses feeling fervently about as a 20 something, I totally missed out on as a pre-teen. But I’m going with 3 stars, because if I could never muster the energy […]
Cannonball!
Overdrive has a ton of book recommendations for Women’s History Month, which is awesome. I’m also really pleased that I’ve already read a ton of them, mostly thanks to you guys. I flipped through some of the options and picked Andie Mitchell’s It Was Me All Along because it said that she was a food blogger and I thought that might be interesting to read about. These memoirs focus mostly on her childhood issues with her weight, which actually makes the third or fourth book that […]
“In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.”
God, I love this book –even though the cover still really creeps me out. I have read it before — 2013, it looks like — but haven’t listened to the audio version. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE AUDIO VERSION. If the written copy deserves 5 stars, the audio (read by the author, of course) should get 6! 7! Give Tina all the stars! “Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.” […]
“She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn’t her parents’ and it wasn’t her friends: It was her own. ”
And here we are in the fourth summer! “We aren’t in high school. We aren’t really in our families and we aren’t in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren’t us. If think they are, then we’re lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren’t any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.” Lina has a fling with a fellow artist from art school. I am all for Lena […]
“I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself”
This wasn’t like, horribly monstrously bad. But it was still not very good. It’s the story of Jessie Sullivan, a married woman in her forties, who goes home to this tiny island after she hears that her mother has had a nervous breakdown. Said nervous breakdown manifests as her mother intentionally cutting off one of her fingers. While back home, Jessie falls in love with a monk from the monastery that’s next door to her mother’s house. Meanwhile, her mother continues to act like a […]
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