I stumbled across this book looking for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books on Overdrive because the cover reminded me so much of them — the jeans with a purple background. Then I Googled it and saw it had a really high rating on Goodreads, so I thought I would give it a shot. This is the story of an overweight teenager and her struggles with her really, REALLY shitty family. As far as body positivity novels go about overweight teens, it falls somewhere […]
“Wear them, they will make you brave.”
I have always loved The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It came out originally when I was probably (definitely) a little too old for it, but luckily my sister like the series too so I could borrow it (see also: the Georgia Nicolson books and The Lizzie Mcguire Movie). If you’re not familiar with the series, it’s about four girls who find themselves separated over summer for the first time in 16 years. Just before they leave for their summer vacations, they find a pair of […]
Hustling, hustling
So…this was bad. Running is a book about “runners” in Greece. Basically, runners are street kids who make a living by hustling tourists to come stay at their shitty hotel. They grab tourists off the bus, talk them into staying at their place and get a cut after the unsuspecting folks have paid their bill. This is one of those books that tries so hard to be artsy and literary by bouncing around in the narrative a lot, while not really telling you anything. Instead, certain acts […]
“My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.”
Wool is one of the big books that’s been sitting on my bookshelf that I put on my list of goals to finish this year. It’s definitely a long book, and probably a lot longer than it needs to be. I felt that the pacing of the story was a little off but realized about halfway through that it originally had been released in sections, which might explain why. It’s the story of a future civilization that has survived some sort of Apocalypse by living […]
“They claim they did all this because they love me, but I must say, I’ve never been loved in such a bizarre fashion.”
I borrowed George Takei’s Oh Myyy! from Caitlin_D and honestly, you can probably just read her assessment of it since I agree wholeheartedly. It’s a collection of memes amid Takei’s take on the internet. Despite the fact that he mentions several times that his Facebook page aims itself (successfully!) towards the demographics of men and women in their twenties and thirties, this book sounds like it was written for people of his own generation who don’t understand how the internet works. It’s funny — he’s a […]
Well that was disappointing
So I’ve mentioned before that Practical Demonkeeping is one of my favorite Christopher Moore books. I reread it recently because I found a copy of the sequel at Half Price Books and wanted to refresh my memory of the first book before reading the second. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove is that sequel and it was honestly pretty terrible. It doesn’t feature hardly any of the characters from the first book, although it does have the same setting. I’m not really sure why he bothered to […]
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