Run with me on this, I get to the point eventually. I was late on the bandwagon with Gilmore Girls, I only started watching after my dad ran the series with my grandma and insisted “no really, you’ll like this.” It all felt a bit hallmark card-y at first until the series kept going and I went from thinking “yeah, this is a total grandma show” to “holy shit, my GRANDMA likes this show?!” The Penderwicks remind me a lot of Gilmore Girls, with a […]
Each one of these ladies deserves a biography
The whole point of the book being to shed light on deserving women forgotten by history, Hidden Figures does too good a job and ends up reading like the prologue to several more in-depth biographies. I am glad I read their stories, but man is the intersection of misogyny and racism hard to take, even while Shetterly does an admirable job of framing it as yet another obstacle each of the formidable women overcomes instead of an insurmountable barrier. She does this while illustrating that […]
I wish I read the book I’m describing…
It’s too hokey to say that I liked this at first but it lost me, but … well… The book doesn’t really have a climax and as a result just sort of meanders from event to event despite the fact that they find an actual lost city in the jungle untouched for years. The buildup to finding the city is so intense – scanning the jungle with high tech lasers, equipping the team with snake prevention measures and cautioning them against tropical diseases, securing the […]
A Unique Perspective on a Tired Premise
I bought this looking for something fluffy for a plane ride and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I mean really, amnesia? That’s such an old horse that there’s nothing left to beat, it’s done, it’s over, even soap operas are tired of it. But while no one is nominating Moriarty for a Pulitzer, this was a much better book than one could have expected from the synopsis. I’m lucky I bought it on name recognition and dove right in; I had no […]
If our author could focus
I liked this more than that review title implies, but I was frustrated by the inconsistent tone and structure of this book. I like a good “random facts barely strung together” or “fake q&a” style book a la the imponderables series, the bathroom readers, or “what Einstein told his chef.” I also enjoy a good medical narrative. I like case histories, especially in service of a greater overarching theme. This book was all of those and none of them by not picking a strategy, and […]
I hated, hated, hated this book
To the tune of “nobody but me” No-no, no, no-no, no-no-no-no No, no-no, no, no, no-no, no-no, no-no No-no-no-no, no-no, no, no-no, no. Nobody speaks like that. Nobody acts like that. Nobody cares what overly wealthy octogenarians do, but they almost certainly don’t throw around terms like “muff diver” with the frequency of a preteen who just learned what words get a reaction from the adults. Nobody believes the thinly veiled archetypes aren’t just people Dunne knows and things that actually happened, but no one […]
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