badkittyuno – Cannonball Read 17

Youths, amiright?

The Distance Between Us by Kasie West

There's Something About Sweetie (Dimple and Rishi #2) by Sandhya Menon

Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren

January 22, 2020 by badkittyuno 1 Comment

Okay, Twice in a Blue Moon isn’t YA but it also wasn’t very good so I’m shoving it in here. These were all middling to fair kissing books — two chaste YA novels and one sexier (but really, not very good) adult novel. (3 stars) The Distance Between Us by Kasie West “A lot of people don’t get my humor. My mom calls it dry humor. I think that means “not funny,” but it also means I’m the only one who ever knows it’s a […]

“We never lose those whose stories remain with us.”

Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society by Judy Christie, Lisa Wingate

January 18, 2020 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

This book will probably appeal more to people who read Lisa Wingate’s Before We Were Yours. I actually started that book, but after a few chapters I just wasn’t getting into it and then it had to go back to the library and I just never bothered to check it out again. So I probably should have expected a similar lackluster response to Before And After, which Lisa Wingate wrote along with Judy Christie. This book came as a response to the many, many people who […]

“A shadow came over 42nd and Eighth Avenue. It completely covered the street for a split second.”

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 by Garrett M. Graff

January 17, 2020 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

I really enjoy the format of an oral history — but most of my experiences with that have been pop culture stories (Vanity Fair’s archives have some amazing reads). I like to see all of the different perspectives people hold of the same story, and I like to watch that story come together in their voices. The Only Plane in the Sky is an oral history of 9/11. This of course is not the light-hearted pop culture reading that I’m used to. But it is […]

“So.” She drummed her fingers on the book. “You’re a grown man who still reads ghost and monster stories.”

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

The Whisper Man by Alex North

Verity by Colleen Hoover

A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill

January 16, 2020 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

(4 stars) The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher Kingfisher tells us from chapter one that the dog (Bongo, best dog ever) and the narrator (Mouse, also quite enjoyable) will be okay at the end of the book. This is good, because I liked them both very much, and this book was SO CREEPY that I really needed some reassurances by the end. Mouse gets called up by her dying father to help with his dead mother’s estate — specifically, the big old house in the […]

“If you get killed in America, there is a 38 percent chance your killer won’t be caught.”

Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen

January 15, 2020 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

Bill Jensen became interested in crime (and catching bad guys) at a young age — his father used to read him newspaper articles as bedtime stories. He even tells a heart-warming tale of learning about Son of Sam with his dad. This created a life-long obsession with crime from Jensen, and eventually led to him to not only help finish Michelle McNamara’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, but also help solve other crimes and help find missing people. “Whenever people ask me why I […]

“There’s no hierarchy of pain. Suffering shouldn’t be ranked, because pain is not a contest.”

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

January 15, 2020 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

Here’s my main takeaway from this book, and it’s one that I think will help people (it’s certainly something I had never really considered but ought to have): therapists are not one size fits all. Most people can benefit from therapy, whether for a short period of time or long-term, but it’s important to find the right person. I tried therapy for a few weeks last year, felt I was attending a lecture for an hour once a week that had nothing to do with […]

Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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