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MANY content warnings but a beautiful depiction of the author’s hometown and culture

Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

December 6, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Content warning: gun death, drug use, addiction, violent sexual assault with disassociation Oooh I am TORN on the review for this one–I feel like this book has so much promise, but at the end of the day there’s just too much going on for the length and reader’s ability to keep up with plot points. This is a beautiful ownvoices story of Daunis, a half-Ojibwe half-French Canadian high school senior living in Sault Ste Marie. From her French Canadian side, she’s the daughter of a […]

So so happy that this group pushed me to finally finish this series!

The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

November 30, 2021 by wicherwill 3 Comments

Will finally write the review for this book! I didn’t want to for so long–I didn’t want to let this one go. Narfna, you were right so many times over. Someone asked if this book resolved everything, or if it was frustrating and unresolved at the end like The Well of Ascension. I mean, of course a second book in a trilogy will be unresolved! One thing a friend told me, though, makes perfect sense–Sanderson is a reader’s writer, in that he loves reading and knows […]

The HP fandom has evolved in such lovely ways since I’ve been involved

Grounds for Divorce by Tepre

November 30, 2021 by wicherwill 7 Comments

I have been meaning to read this for ages. I actually told my friend over whatsapp that I was going to read this sometime late 2020, and then proceeded to…not. Pardon the digression, but: one of the biggest personal fallouts from the whole “JKR is an unrepentant transphobe” issue is that I’ve felt weird and icky reading fanfic. Which is sad, and doesn’t make sense! Sort of like transphobia! The vast, vast majority of fanfic writers, and certainly all the ones that I’ve avidly followed, […]

be prepared to be hungry and sad all the time

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

November 30, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

My friend Evin has the best description of this in her short review which helped solidify some of my confusion with the show: it’s “a beautiful meander,” as opposed to a narratively driven memoir as you might expect. Zauner takes us through the confusing, complicated relationship she had with her mother through the language that should be familiar to anyone vaguely well versed in the ways of the Asian immigrant parent: food. Descriptions of and names of food are everywhere–this is not a book to […]

THIS is what representation is all about! 10/10 :D

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen

November 30, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

What an excellent book, picked up on a whim based on a recommendation from who knows where! I’ll get one part out of the way first: this is how you do representation, people, take note. Irene Abraham is both desi (I think half) and Catholic (which is a thing!) and has a line where she shares that her grandparents are Keralites which explains both–if you’re desi, it’s a confirmation of what you guessed as soon as you saw her last name, if you’re not/not aware […]

interesting book that was endlessly distracting because of one smallll thing…

The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage by Drew Magary

November 30, 2021 by wicherwill 1 Comment

Magary has it right when, almost at the end of the novel, he’s finding a therapist. He breaks the fourth wall (as he often does) and says something akin to, “Reader, you’ve probably been saying since the beginning FIND A THERAPIST.” And look, I’m not going to throw away an entire novel’s worth of exposition and self reflection based on one sentiment, but on the other hand it’s entirely too distracting to read hundreds of pages of slow, agonized recovery that includes permanent disability and […]

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