A while back, my friends and I started a book club. We meet roughly every other month and have for the last say year and a half. Normally it’s just two hours for us to sit down, drink wine, and hang out, and that’s awesome. In the meetings we’ve held so far, only once have we all actually read the book and that was Big Little Lies (side note, that made for a super fun meeting. We talked about the book for a full three hours and […]
A surface read, but an enjoyable one
I read Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone series last year and didn’t think all that much of it. It read like bad fanfic, despite being more or less original. So I didn’t have the highest of expectations going into Strange the Dreamer, and got to be pleasantly surprised. I’ve even got a future hold on book 2 at the library set up. If you couldn’t tell by the title and cover, this is another young adult fantasy about a young person discovering their place in […]
A memoir that made me introspective
Memoirs are about the author but I have to admit I spent most of Hunger thinking about myself. I don’t like having to say that – I’m a privileged white woman, stories like mine get told all the time and this was a story emphatically not about me and yet chapter after chapter I thought about myself. As something of a Tumblr feminist, Roxane Gay was someone I was culturally aware of, but Hunger was the first of her books that I’ve read. She is an incredibly […]
Too easily the future of “school choice”
This book should terrify and infuriate everyone who reads it because you know what? At the rate our local, state, and federal governments are defunding public education and deregulating what’s counts as “school choice”, this kind of child abuse will be allowed to proliferate instead of be curbed. And I say child abuse before I even get to the physical and emotional abuse in this book – child abuse as in denying your kid access to a real education. We’ve found one of my high […]