Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
I honestly don’t know what to say about this beyond the fact that it was raw, emotional, and just a lovely memoir. Michelle Zauner does a great job of showing us readers all the ways that her mother and food impacted her life. And she provides insights into her mother’s family, as well as her mother and father. This book honestly had me missing my mother the entire time I read it. And as I thought of her, I also realized how much food came […]
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
I ended up DNFing this book at 20 percent. I am sorry, but this is dragging. It doesn’t help that the book keeps jumping back and forth and I really don’t understand the cult that the main character, Vern was involved with. And I assume this is in a different time and place than our Earth? Once again, this book dragged and I just didn’t feel much like pushing past the 20 percent mark because everything felt so slow and I just started getting bored […]
Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
Honestly this was a 4.5 star read for me, and that’s just because one of the characters died in a stupid way that I went okay that seems ridiculous. But until that little hiccup, this was definitely a 5 star read. I just rounded up to 5 stars because everything else in the book, character development, writing, flow, setting, and the ending were fantastic. I also had to go back and re-read the prologue because you don’t find out until the end who that person […]
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
All in all very thought provoking I thought. That is the main reason why I give this 5 stars. When Kendi loops in his own personal history and how his thinking changed from racist to anti-racist behavior it sometimes get muddled. And I will admit that I laughed out loud when he decided that the issue with white people were that they were aliens. Like my God, I would have mocked him too. But all in all this was interesting. I don’t know if I […]
State of Terror by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny
Don’t be mad at me. But this book was not good. It did not help that then we have Armand Gamache and the village of Three Pines come into play which makes me shudder about where Penny plans on taking that series. The characters were not developed very well (and this is in a 500 page book). The writing was repetitive and I honestly don’t want to read the words Madame Secretary for like a fortnight. The flow was awful. The setting of the White […]
The Forest by Lisa Quigley
I think parts of this one worked, and others really did not. The ending was just….eh. It didn’t fit what came before it. And I think that parts of the book most definitely dragged. But I liked this combination of “The Lottery” and “Harvest Home” that we got in this book. “The Forest” follows a young woman named Faye. Faye and her family have lived in the village of Edgewood for generations it seems. Faye has struggled since the birth of her son, Jonas. […]
