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POV: When you pay for more audiobook time on Spotify because you can’t wait to finish the book

Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

January 29, 2024 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

T.J. Klune has been on my to-read list for some time, ever since seeing one of the B&N special editions of his books with the sprayed edges, but I’d been missing him for quite a while for some unknown reason. When I saw this one pop up in the available audiobooks on Spotify, though, I thought no better time than the present and dove right in. Right out the gate, it seemed like exactly what I was in the mood for, but a google search […]

Forget everybody else and just be

Convenience Store Woman by Kayaka Murata

January 25, 2024 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

. Sorry, I’m back on that autism beat once more. Murata’s book covers were just too aesthetically pleasing to not read right away. Well, at least this one. I almost launched straight into Earthlings after this before learning of its laundry list of content warnings and deciding to put a pin in that for the moment. It’s never officially stated that our main character in Convenience Store Woman is autistic, but her copy-pasting of others phrases, expressions, and tone, her obsession with her job, and the […]

Left me feeling cold (pun intended)

Before the Coffee Gets Gold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

January 25, 2024 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

Having already mistakenly read the sequel to this, not realizing it was part of a series when I caught wind of it on BookTok, I thought it only made sense to pick up the rest of the series and start with the first book that I’d accidentally skipped. Suffice it to say, I think Kawaguchi was still yet to find their footing with this one. Whereas with its sequel, there were multiple moments where I was moved to tears, a rare feat for a book, […]

Ishiguro, I think I WILL let you go…

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

January 25, 2024 by Travis_J_Smith 4 Comments

My wife’s father loves to say of the movie, “it’s like shooting fish in a barrel.” I too didn’t care for the movie when I watched it all those years ago, having watched it for that hook (humans cloned for their organs) and gotten little to satisfy my desire for said hook. My wife has persisted, throughout the years we’ve been together, though, that the book is better. So, with audiobooks included with Spotify Premium, I started listening through Never Let Me Go, and boy was […]

See, this is why you should stick to the zoo animals, Applegate

The One and Only Ruby by Katherine Applegate

January 22, 2024 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

Alright, Applegate, this is a vast improvement over the previous sequel to The One and Only Ivan. A small part of me wondered if they intentionally avoided mentioning The One and Only Bob on the cover, instead simply referring to it only as a sequel to The One and Only Ivan because the second book was not on par with the first, but I appear to be in the minority on that (based upon Goodreads reviews at least). But is it a fair fight when this one has a […]

Hollywood, and humanity, never cease disappointing me

Pageboy by Elliot Page

January 22, 2024 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

I bought this one last year, knowing Page really only for his roles in Juno and Hard Candy, two of my favorite films, but wanting to get a better look into the struggles of the trans community. I’ve read many an LGBTQ book, even ones regarding asexuality/aromanticism, yet transexuality hadn’t really come into play in my reading yet, so it seemed high time. However, the book sat on my shelf for a little while, forgotten about. Primarily, it was due to me not reading much in the […]

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