Jules miraculously lands at a creative arts summer camp her junior year of high school. Even more miraculous, she is somehow taken in by the most popular crowd there. The six of them decide they are the Interestings and Jules redefines her life based on what they see. For reasons that Jules never understands, the beautiful and perfect Ash becomes her best friend. Jules doesn’t see why she, or any of the Interstings want her around and she knows at any minute they will realize they’ve made […]
Fluff is a great name for a cat.
We all have bad days. Difficult months. Challenging years. But every once in awhile, it seems like the stars of “fuck you.” align to create something so cruel that it should be fiction and then hands it to someone and walks away. That’s what happened to Tig in less than one year. People want to make sense of things, so they say it’s random, or God only gives you what He thinks you can handle, or they wonder what you did in a previous life. […]
A Better Person Would Write a House Metaphor Here
Here’s another book that I liked and I don’t know why. Something about the structure worked well for me. It felt like the book was made up of slices and I only had a vague sense of the timeline, and I liked that. Time is told through New England weather and I wonder if readers from places where there are no seasons got stuck trying to figure out how long this story lasted. The plot is one of frustration. Kristen and Cal have relocated from […]
Don’t Feed Dogs Chocolate, Although That’s Not What The Problem Was
I don’t know why I liked this book. It’s sweet. It’s as far from cynical as one can get. It’s… nice. But the characters aren’t. They are sarcastic. And angry. Super dysfunctional. And really funny. Seven year old Elsa tells this story and she is hilarious. She’s far too smart for her age and finds other seven year olds to be boring and useless. Adults aren’t much better, especially the ones at school. Granny is her savior. Granny doesn’t have time for rules. Spelling […]