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A story both ordinary and extraordinary

Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira Lee

February 1, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

So as I was falling asleep last night I started to write this review in my head. It went something along the lines of “This book puts me happily back in my wheelhouse – it’s a well-written story about lives so utterly removed from my own” and then my eyes SNAPPED open and I suddenly realized I had 100% inherited my mother’s taste in books. Is that something you can inherit? Sure seems like I have. The more I thought about this book, the more […]

I am genuinely glad I finished out the series

Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan

January 30, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

So I reviewed and loved the first one, was supremely let down by the second, and came into the third with low expectations and hey, it surpassed them! In my head, it went down like this – Crazy Rich Asians was a blockbuster success, so the publishers jumped on Kwan to write more. China Rich Girlfriend was his initial “wtf fine fine fine!” with all the prep and consideration that allowed but he had that plus more time to get Rich People Problems done. And maybe it was the […]

My first Must Read of 2019

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

January 29, 2019 by lowercasesee 3 Comments

Y’all, this book was amazing. I could not put it down, I utterly devoured it. Maybe I’m just obsessed with the setting of a women’s prison (I’m still fully on board the Orange is the New Black train) but like this book got me. It is so mind-bendingly good, y’all. Disjointed storytelling is a technique that fails more often than it works, but when it works (and it does here) it is outrageously engrossing. The book starts with our narrator being moved to her new prison where […]

It finds the right story at the halfway point

Warlight by Michael Ondaatje

January 23, 2019 by lowercasesee 3 Comments

The first half of this book was a real slog for a number of reasons that all kind of boiled down to – it’s yet another novel about a young white boy figuring out life in the shadow of World War II. At this point, I have lost count of the number of these I have read and they all blur together, and this one just also felt like not enough actually happened in it for it to stand out. The first half of the […]

White Feminism: A Novel

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

January 17, 2019 by lowercasesee 1 Comment

I know “white feminism” is usually used as a pejorative (and appropriately so) but in this case it is also a really good descriptor for what the book is about. It’s about feminism and white ladies who are feminist and their white lady feminist lives. I have a white lady feminist life. I think maybe I just miss the books I read last year about worlds so far removed from my own. This was a book I really understood well. Our primary protagonist, Greer, is […]

A little too familiar

13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad

January 11, 2019 by lowercasesee 1 Comment

I picked this one up after catching Jenny S’s review the other day. Weirdly my library had it immediately available so here we are. I agree with Jenny, this is not one I see myself reading again. Or even recommending, honestly. Still, I wouldn’t call it bad. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is comprised of multiple small stories seemingly about the same woman (Lizzie/Beth/Liz/Elizabeth) strung throughout her life and throughout her battle with herself and her weight. Her dress size changes drastically, […]

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