The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
[Check content warnings: there are a lot of them.] After Banned Books Week, a friend decided that as a way of encouraging people to read banned books year round, she'd create a banned books book club, and The Bluest Eye was the first selection. This is only my third Morrison book … [Read more]
Kraken by China Mieville
Cannonball Read Bingo: Black This. book. has. everything. Sentient tattoos, supernatural picket lines, spearguns, squid cults, invisible truffle pigs, and human origami. What's human origami, you ask? It's that thing of when you use magic to fit an adult man into a envelope and then send … [Read more]
Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
Erebus tells the story of the eponymous ship, part of the British Imperial navy at the height of its power. Though it was originally meant for combat, it was used for exploration - polar exploration, to be precise. It was first sailed to the south pole by James Clark Ross, with its sister ship HMS … [Read more]
Dire Bound by Sable Sorenson
Dire Bound by Sable Sorenson is a Romantasy based in a world where humans pair up with enormous dire wolves to fight off the siphons, a nation of vampire-like creatures. As Dire Bound opens, Meryn is working in a laundry by day and underground fighting by night for extra cash. She is the sole … [Read more]
"What Do You Mean, Murder?” Clue and the Making of a Cult Classic by John Hatch
My apologies to anyone who wishes they didn't have to know that this year is the 40th anniversary of the movie Clue. :) One of the Read Harder tasks this year is to read a book about a piece of media you love, and I love Clue. It's one of my absolute comfort watches, so hunting down this book became … [Read more]
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
It's weird. I thought I read this book years ago and just realized as I was reading, nope. I think I got the movie mixed up in my head. This is going to be a short review, this was very good. Tom Ripley is a hot mess and you keep waiting for him to get caught, but he does not. I also felt a strange … [Read more]
