Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
OH GOD I DID IT. Just like that, Throne of Glass is finally freaking over. I thought this day would never come and now that it’s here (well, passed, I finished this last week) I can’t quite believe it. Another Sarah J. Maas series is in the books (hah!) and you know what, I hate it less than A Court of Thorns and Roses. Kingdom of Ash is LONG, y’all. I got a look at it in a bookstore where I giggled as I pointed it out to my […]
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
You know the blinking white guy gif? That was me for like the entirety of this book. I still have no idea what the hell it was about or what happened to why. This one needs a deep read, not a piece-by-piece metro read but I gave it what I had and I am still so lost. Can someone smarter than me tell me what I just read? Gingerbread is part Hansel and Gretel, part bedtime story, and part fever dream. There’s the start of […]
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
I am SO far behind on my reviews so here’s to hoping I can remember enough about this book to put together a full review. The odds are not in my favor but I’m going to try. Here’s some more filler text! A Place for Us is set among a Muslim Indian family living in the United States. It’s a bit of a generational novel – the stories of the parents as a young couple, of the children as youngsters, of the children as adults […]
Vox by Christina Dalcher
So right after finishing Girls With Sharp Sticks, I went straight into another dystopian nightmare world rooted in the hatred of women. Don’t ask me why. Well here’s why. I was out of library books and had bought Vox on sale a couple of months ago. It was that or back to the Throne of Glass so. Here we are. Vox is pretty regularly compared to Handmaid’s Tale and for understandable reasons. Both exist in a not-so-distant future in which women are a visibly, unmistakably oppressed class. The difference […]
Girls With Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young
The genre label Young Adult can quite often simply mean that the book has a teenage protagonist. An author friend of mine drove the point home with, “If it had been released today, Catcher In The Rye would be marketed as Young Adult.” So I read them and they don’t always feel entirely age inappropriate. Girls With Sharp Sticks is not one of these books. I’m pretty sure this one was meant for twelve-year-olds. Which isn’t bad! Twelve-year-olds need books too. Call it My First Dystopia. Our […]
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman
I was only a few chapters into this book when I started brainstorming ways to gift it to my fiance without coming off as patronizing. Giving a relationship book to your partner is … tricky (especially when your partner isn’t a big reader). It’s a wonderful, delightful book with some truly fantastic insights into relationships and specifically long-lasting, healthy relationships. And our relationship IS flipping amazing. I just loved this book. Anyway, I’ll figure it out. If you couldn’t tell by the cover, this is […]
