Thanks to the quirks of inter-library loan, I received To All The Boys I Loved Before and its sequel P.S I Still Love You at the same time. Little did I know; my library was doing me a favor because Han’s sequel works best if the reader consumes it immediately after reading To All The Boys. In fact, I feel like Jennie Han encourages the reader to binge read both books back to back because the events of the second book pick up a mere […]
The book was better? Yes, yes it was…but the movie was really fun too.
In lesser hands, a novel about a girl, Lara Jean, having her secret letters she wrote to each of her five crushes accidentally mailed out, would be a fun but slight high school romp of a story. But author Jenny Han delivers something even better with “To all the Boys I’ve Loved Before”. Sure, this is a romance but more than that, it’s a story about sisters, family and the subtle way grief lingers and shapes us. Relatively sheltered and an introvert, biracial Lara Jean is […]
Now that’s how you reclaim a narrative
You can’t escape Lovecraft’s influence if you, like I, read a lot of sci-fi/fantasy/horror. But until now, I had never read any of Lovecraft’s works directly just interpretations of them by authors like Neil Gaiman. I was aware that he is considered problematic due to racist beliefs that even for his time were extreme but I wasn’t sure how much of that bled into his actual work. Well, thanks to my book club I got to find out firsthand. Our assignment this month was to […]
Humans are the worst
Bear with me, I’m about to try to get you to read a nonfiction book about a species of fish. One of my best reading years as an adult occurred a few years back when I was tearing through a lot of non-fiction food books. So when one of the contributors to the site Serious Eats mentioned that “Cod” had a permanent place on his kitchen bookshelf, I made a mental note to pick it up the next time I went to the library. Well, […]