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I couldn’t finish it

I'll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara

January 9, 2019 by lowercasesee 2 Comments

This book was everywhere and I love Patton Oswald and it’s really well written, I just couldn’t. It’s true crime, and true crime and I don’t mix – I’m too squeamish. Lord knows why, but I keep trying. I listened to half an episode of My Favorite Murderer before I nope-d right out of there. A full series podcast came out about a recent local crime and I don’t think I lasted five minutes. These are horrible things that actually happened to real people and […]

Rainbow Rowell is my happy place

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

January 8, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

Rainbow Rowell books are the written equivalent of a weighted blanket and cup of tea. The moment I open one, I feel immediately comfortable and content. There is something inherently warm about her writing so much so that even when the characters are in tough situations, I’m just happy to be there. Carry On, well, carries on this grand tradition and I am just tickled pink that she wrote it. I’ll probably reread Fangirl this year because it was my first and always favorite of her books […]

I am not smart enough for this book

Feel Free by Zadie Smith

January 7, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

Last year, I read a number of books of short stories and reiterated in each review that short stories aren’t really my thing. I like a lot of plot to sink my teeth into and by and large, I don’t get that from short stories. Doesn’t mean they’re bad, just means they’re not for me. I get Zadie Smith’s Feel Free and somehow just completely missed the part where it says “essays” on the front cover. So like short stories, but non fiction. I very nearly gave […]

Oh h*ck I’m gonna buy the whole series

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

January 4, 2019 by lowercasesee 4 Comments

A wiser Cannonballer than I described Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series as great hangover reads and I was tempted to extend that to her Throne of Glass series but these aren’t so much “stall your pain” as “forget the world”. And with the way the world is right now, I could do with a whole lot of forgetting. Again, I reiterate, these books are not good. Yet somehow I can’t put them down. I start reading and look up and HOURS have passed […]

I loved it, even with my surface knowledge of Star Trek

Redshirts by John Scalzi

January 4, 2019 by lowercasesee 5 Comments

Okay, so my full knowledge of Star Trek can be summed up thusly: Picard face-palms, that one dude sits in chairs like he’s hurdling, and redshirts are cannon fodder. And honestly? That’s all I needed to know to enjoy the hell out of Redshirts. Those with an encyclopedic knowledge of Star Trek (which I’m willing to bet is more than a few of you) will probably fall head over heels in love. The title may pretty quickly clue you in – Redshirts takes place in a world […]

I mean, I’m incensed by how not good it was?

The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon

January 3, 2019 by lowercasesee 3 Comments

This may be my biggest pet peeve in literature – writing dialogue sans quotation marks. I’ve ranted about it time and time again, because it doesn’t make you edgy, it makes you exhausting. Plus this book felt like a more boring knockoff of The Girls, by Emma Cline, which I also hated. Mostly because of the cult stuff. What happens is, I look over these lists of “best books of XYZ” and chuck them all on my hold list at the library because why not, forgetting […]

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