This is Going to Hurt: The Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor is important reading for any Brit who’s about to vote without bearing the future of the NHS in mind. I’ve worked in that arena for the last 15 years and the last 10 years of that has been under the banner of ‘austerity’. In that time we’ve seen services go from underfunded to seriously critical, with staff breaking more and more regularly thanks to the increased stresses and strains that go hand in […]
My first cannonball review! I’ve been a long-time reader of Pajiba and last year was the first time I started tracking the books I read a bit more intentionally, albeit in a spreadsheet, so two of my interests are really coinciding here. Anyways, on to the book. First of all, N.K. Jemisin is just flat-out an amazing writer. The story is presented as three parallel narratives, all from the point-of-view of the main character at different points in her life. It takes a few chapters […]
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Mulholland Drive in Fiction Form
I’m not sure if I even liked this book but I’m fascinated by it. I’ve never tried bizarro fiction. It’s not a genre that appeals to me. But when I saw this on a list of weird crime novels from the irreplaceable CrimeReads.com website, I figured I’d give it a chance since I love LA noirs. I went in with low expectations, knowing this isn’t the kind of thing I normally read. And while I don’t have a desire to try more bizarro fiction, I […]
The worst part of writing this statement was recalling all of these events because, honestly, I’d just as soon forget.
This is a very good story collection that came out in 2018, but it’s from a relatively small university press. The reviews for it are also lauding. The cover lead me to believe it would be another “weird” book like I enjoyed with variable levels from the collections “Heads of Colored People” and “Friday Black”; the title also contributed to this feeling. But it’s not. It’s a really mature collection of stories with a few moments of humor, but almost no strong moments of irony […]