#132-6: Attachments, Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, and Landline by Rainbow Rowell: 5 stars each.
Surprise, bitch. I bet you thought you’d seen the last of me.
#129: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe: 4 stars. #130: The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie : 2 stars. #131: Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology by Cory O’Brien: 5 stars.
I did not like The Red Book. I didn’t like the parents who tolerated their preteen sons watching hardcore pornography at the family dinner table. I hated the woman who had children in spite of her husband’s wishes. I hated her deadbeat husband who ignored his wife and children. I despised the woman who came to the conclusion that her emotional and physical absence during her mother’s slow, painful death from cancer justified her partner’s fling with a young woman. I loathed the woman who […]
How to Survive the Unsurvivable
Reading The Shock of the Fall took me back to my early teens a little bit. Because back then, before wizard, vampires, and dystopian societies had exploded the YA market, the age-appropriate books found in my local library fell mostly into two categories: the ones with horses and the ones with problems. Sometimes the categories overlapped of course, so you’d get books with horses and problems. For a few years, after picture books and Nancy Drew, but before my brief Serious Adult Classics Only phase […]