“You can love what you see in the mirror, but you can’t self-esteem your way out of the way the world treats you.” I’d seen Gabrielle Union in Bring It On, and I’d heard that she had a new book coming out. I knew almost nothing about her, but I’d heard she was a rape survivor and an advocate for women, which was nice to hear (the advocate-for-women part). When I saw her new book, We’re Going to Need More Wine (2017) at the library, I figured it […]
Murder from the perspective of a fetus
I am a huge fan of Ian McEwan, and I’ve read a number of books by him. So when I saw that he had another one out, I went and picked it up. I’m not sure what to say about Nutshell (2016). It held my attention, but I couldn’t buy into the entire conceit, so I was left with the feeling that it was odd. The protagonist of this story is a fetus in its mother’s womb (I assumed it was a boy because it sounded like […]
Advice for the eloquent
How to Be a Person in the World by Heather Havrilesky is another book I saw on NPR’s Best Books of 2016 list. What makes me sad about this list is that it’s almost 2018, and there are still so many books that I want to read. I guess it’s inevitable when the list has over three hundred books of all different genres that I won’t get to them all. Then there are the recommendations from Cannonball and other friends, random books I see at the bookstore, […]
I was rolling my eyes so hard
A friend of mine from book club mentioned that she’d read some romance novels by C.M. Owens and really enjoyed them. I was intrigued, always ready to find a new, favorite romance author. I went on Amazon and quickly found Hooked on the Game (2014), the first book in the Sterling Shore series for free! So that worked out perfectly. Unfortunately, even though there was sometimes some good heat and connection between the leads, I found the whole thing preposterous. Raya Capperton is a focused college student, […]
Rich, white family drama
The Vacationers (2014) by Emma Straub is another book I saw displayed at the library, and it caught my attention. I think I recognized the author from another reading list, and I decided to pick it up. There’s really not much to this book at first glance. The plot is that a family goes on vacation for two weeks in Spain. They’re well off and they have first world problems caused by their own angst and bad choices. What made this book interesting and fun to […]
Choose kindness first
“Shall we make a new rule of life…always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?” (299) Just the other day, we were talking at work about the hardest times for kids as they grow up. I said, unequivocally, that middle school was the worst for me. I didn’t have a particularly bad time of it, but I think there was a reason I had a spate of migraines during middle school. Middle school kids have an astounding capacity for cruelty. August Pullman, […]
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