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It is only unnatural in the sense that there are human beings who can do this sort of thing to other human beings.

Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabar and Anna Waterhouse

May 29, 2020 by Leedock 1 Comment

I am woefully behind in both reading and reviewing. It is taking me FOREVER to read these days and when it takes weeks to read something I have zero interest in reviewing it right away. So, here I am, ages after reading this book, trying to come up with 250 words to say about it. KimMiE posted a great review in February, and I strongly suggest skipping this and just reading hers. Seriously. No stranger to Sherlock Holmes re-tellings, I have often mentioned in other reviews how […]

…friendship is hard to define.

Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane

April 9, 2020 by Leedock Leave a Comment

This was the March pick for my book club. We were set to meet as the stay at home orders started so we obviously didn’t get to discuss it. A member of the club pointed out the irony of having read a book about reconnecting and friendship just as we were holing up in our homes. Seems like a lifetime ago. Kane’s novel is about the self imposed isolation of a middle aged woman who moved back home over a decade ago to help her […]

What a lovely creature you are.

The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley

April 9, 2020 by Leedock Leave a Comment

This is a hard book to review or it may be that this is a hard time for me to write a review. I thought that reading would be a refuge for me as we self isolate but concentrating enough to fall into a story hasn’t been easy for me. Oddly, I’m leaning more towards exercise, of all things, stress cleaning, playing Wordscapes and Scrabble on my phone and making meal plans based on the miscellaneous foodstuffs in my house. BUT…if there ever was a story to […]

Her chatty and nervous daughter, and the quiet, thoughtful person she paid to love her.

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

March 1, 2020 by Leedock Leave a Comment

Reid’s debut novel definitely got a lot of advance press. Everyone was buzzing about it. For the most part, everything that I read highlighted the same plot point: The young black babysitter of a white little girl is detained and interrogated in a grocery store by a security guard because what-on-earth-would-a-little-white-girl-be-doing-under-the-care-of-a-black-woman-dressed-in-night club-attire-at-that-hour. Is the book about this incident? Yes, in part, but it is just an unfortunately recognizable incident that becomes a gateway to so much more. Emira is a bit adrift after graduating from college. […]

A theater for my unquiet mind

The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn

March 1, 2020 by Leedock Leave a Comment

My mother is a reader but unfortunately it is rare for us to share a book that we both enjoy. Occasionally though, we hit upon one that pleases us both. She tends to think that the books that I read are “weird” so she didn’t hesitate to recommend this one to me. After reading loads of similar sounding books and suffering from Gone Girl burnout, I was wary. I have a love/hate thing with books that I KNOW have some kind of twist and/or unreliable narrators that […]

…another man and what he wanted from me was the last thing I needed

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

January 22, 2020 by Leedock 1 Comment

This was a popular CBR11 book and I mostly agree with everyone’s previous reviews. It is a truthful, funny, and often cringe-inducing look at a young woman in crisis. Queenie is 25 years old, uninspired by her job, and going through what she thinks is a temporary rough patch in her relationship with her live-in boyfriend, Tom. As Queenie gradually becomes aware that Tom is pulling further away from her, she begins seeking solace and affirmation in all of the wrong places. The lingering instability […]

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