I really liked this book, but it was kind of insane to be reading it during working at my job which is probably mostly not bullshit but is remote so it does feel kind of like nobody is looking at me and that is sometimes scary. I kept reading this book and he would describe […]
I have been highly recommended Vicious from many different people in my life and promised a fun, friends to enemies story with some homosexual tension. Unfortunately I would have thought this was good in 2008 but have read much deeper books since then, so it flopped for me in a lot of ways. I didn’t […]
I really enjoyed this even though I found a lot of its “final twists” to be kind of soap opera-y. But I think I’m pretty easy to please as a reader. I also read this kind of because it fulfilled a lot of stuff on my challenges, which unfortunately means that although I have a […]
This was heartbreaking and wild and intense and really slow at times and taking place in two different places and times and honestly, a lot going on. Great narration; I read this on audiobook. A lot of the writing feels very surreal or dreamlike, especially in the first half, but the second half feels more […]
The thing about requesting romance novels on NetGalley is that later you have to review them. Most of the time I feel so stupidly neutral about a straight romance that I feel like a zombie walking around going “I had fun! It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t bad!” I read this as an audiobook egalley […]
Hey. Hey, you. Did you know that “cozy” as a genre descriptor no longer applies to Just Mysteries? That’s right, we’ve got cozy romances now, we’ve got cozy fantasy, and even, incredibly, cozy sci-fi by the incredible and inimitable Becky Chambers. The only flaw about this book is that it’s so short, and also I […]
claustrophobic, atmospheric, fundamentally about the horrors of coming back home after you are an adult. repetition used to absolute maximum effect. some parts of this book made me feel physically sick, but it’s not necessarily gory, just kind of, nausea-inducing. in a positive way? I was very lucky to get this eARC as both an […]
Narrator: First person Series #: Bibliophile Mystery 16 Main sleuth(s): Brooklyn Wainwright, bookbinder Animals: Fluffy calico cat Location: San Francisco, California Theme: Bookbinding Sub-location: Covington Library during the Mark Twain Festival Notes on the puns of the title: It’s has to do with the murder AND it rhymes! I’m not sure that it’s a pun, […]
Oh, I really liked this book! I love that it takes place at the backdrop of a film set, and how the main character doesn’t necessarily want to be An Actor but rather a director, which isn’t often seen. And I love a sapphic misunderstood-rivals to lovers! This was ultimately just really sweet. Four stars. […]
