Popular books are popular for a reason – I look a look at the bingo list and I’d read all of them. Which meant I was free to opt for the reread of my choosing! And I chose the Rainbow Rowell book I’d only read once: Attachments Minor quibble: no one ever actually attaches anything. But that’s really my only quibble, so you know this book is damn solid. Okay second quibble. What Lincoln does is really creepy and inexcusable and when Beth does finally get […]
YAAAAAAS
The wonderful thing about library books is there are so many possibilities. The bad thing about library books is there is so little time. A book is delivered to my Kindle and I have 3 weeks in which to read it. Library books take precedence over owned books, you see. Which is why it’s taken me over a year to finish Hidden Figures. There was just always a library book. Thank god for lulls because ugh this book is amazing. And it is dense. I found it […]
“Cities form in the same way as galaxies”
I just like … really liked this book. Maybe because it was short and good and I’d been slogging through so many that were long and bad. Probably because it was good. Like really good. It’ll take me a bit, but let me try to put into words why. I didn’t know what to title this review, so I just threw up my favorite quote. Even though the quote has so little to do with the book. Tommy Orange has done a novel of the […]
Is it a letdown if you expect it to be bad?
These were never going to be high quality books. I’ve read and reviewed the first two and I know this and yet somehow this finale bummed me out with its not-good-ness. It wasn’t that I had high hopes, it’s that I had low expectations and it still fell short. I finished Hero at the Fall less than a week ago and I’ve already forgotten what happened except that it all mostly worked out in the end (go figure. Very few books in this age range get […]
The author is inadvertently his own villain
This is another one that’s just kind of … there. The author fancies himself a standup comedian and the book was self-published, which should really tell you all you need to know. It’s not offensively bad (for the most part, there are some HILARIOUS stereotypes about women, let me tell you) it’s just blah. It’s a book that is meant to combine magic and technology and it just kind of flops there and looks dead. Here’s an anecdote that pretty well describes the book and […]
Just ban those who ban this book
I’m not really going to review this book. We all know Harry Potter. If you haven’t read the books, you’ve seen the movies, and if you haven’t seen the movies well you’re here in the English-speaking internet so YOU KNOW HARRY POTTER. Y’all don’t need me to review g-d Harry Potter. Rereading Harry Potter – especially rereading Sorcerer’s Stone – is like walking back into your childhood home. Everything is familiar and oh so dear and yes you know every turn and beat by heart and that just […]
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