I sing the praises of my local library but sometimes I don’t get things quite when I would like – hence, getting and finishing Kindred slightly after the CBR book club. I am sorry I didn’t get to join the discussion, but I am so happy I finally had the push to read this one. Lord knows how or why, but I had no idea of what this book was going to be about. The cover doesn’t really do the book justice – this looks like it’s […]
Monstrously creepy and I loved it
I read Shibuyama’s review of The Merry Spinster before I got into the book and braced myself for horror. I don’t like horror (I get nightmares easily, apparently) but I’d heard good things and still wanted to read it. This was a case of bracing myself and then it really not being as bad as I was thinking so yay! Played the expectations game and won. It helped that the book opens with a retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s Little Mermaid, the OG little mermaid which is […]
I just … didn’t care
Maybe it’s because I know jack about classical or chamber music, but I just could not muster a single fuck to give about this book. My high school required a music history class so I at least recognized some of the names tossed around but just like … damn. I work in the visual arts, folks, I can talk about that all the live long day. But even the manufactured drama in this book was boring. The Ensemble is about a chamber music string quartet. […]
Better than I gave it credit for
I’ve been trying to suss out how to describe my taste in books and the best I can do so far is to say that I prefer plot-driven to people-driven. You know those books about ordinary folks in small town and the life that unfolds around them? Not my bag, generally speaking. Celeste Ng is really the big exception. I read her second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, last year and loved it. So much. A mother and daughter and the life they stumble into in small […]