Murder at the Vicarage – 4/5 This novel is the very first Miss Marple novel. What I liked about this one is the same kind of thing I liked about The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, where Miss Marple is the detective and means through which the mystery is solved but she’s not the narrator and not even really much of the focus of the novel at all. In this novel the case is the murder of the local ranking military official murdered in a study […]
Lies, love, and facing reality
It’s Juneteenth, which makes an incredibly appropriate day to review Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley. This book was on my radar since it first came out in 2014, but it took a wee bit of time to actually find time to read it. (Seriously, on this site, I know I’m not the only one who’s reading list is longer than the time I’ll ever possibly have to read over the course of my entire life…) What first drew me in was that the […]
The future is augmented
I’m combining my reviews for Company Town and Autonomous for a couple of reasons. 1. Both stories happen in the future 2. Both stories take place in Canada 3. Both authors have won awards for their books 4. The authors have appeared together on panels to discuss their work, where they are often likely to discuss human/robot sex, for reasons which will become clear in this review. Writing about the future is a broad topic and goes by a lot of descriptors—science fiction, utopian/dystopian fiction, speculative fiction—there are many […]
Nobody’s Perfect
A bunch of women get together and call themselves the “May Mothers” after meeting on an online chat group for first time expectant parents. One by one each of the women become mothers and work to deal with the specific challenges that motherhood can present. In this book we see women trying to balance their careers while still being a “good mom”, the trouble with breastfeeding for some, post partum depression (and perhaps even psychosis), achieving intimacy with a partner, and just being able to […]
34: White men who think they’re allies (but still negging and objectifying you) are the worst.
There is a halfway decent adventure novel tucked into this patchwork jumble somewhere. I came to this book with glowing recommendations of almost everyone I knew, and the movie trailer looked fun. To say that I was greatly disappointed in this novel does not begin to cover it. The first half of the novel is a mess, to put it politely. Wade Watts is a stereotypical “nice guy,” akin to a Ted Mosby or a Leonard Hofstadter. This is not a compliment. A true nice […]
If you must wear someone, you could do a lot worse than Deadpool
The second part of my Deadpool birthday swag, Back in Black is set between the moment that the alien symbiote, Venom, abandoned his Spidey-host and before he latched on to Eddie Brock, and spent a while driving Deadpool’s body around instead. To be completely honest, I don’t really know much about the character of Venom besides what I saw in Spidey 3 where it turned Peter Parker into an even bigger douche than Tobey Maguire is in real life. But while Venom doesn’t succeed in […]
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