This review is for the audiobook version of Rooms, by Lauren Oliver. This isn’t a book I probably would have come across on my own, but sometimes I trust the Overdrive algorithm and choose a book based on its recommendations for me, and occasionally it works out. This was one of those books. The story revolves around a house, one that has seen life, death, love, and sorrow. It has also absorbed a couple of ghosts, both women who had lived and died in […]
My Kind of Vacation
This review is for the audiobook version of Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell. I love history. It was my favorite subject in school. I’ve always seen it as a series of stories, twisted together and linked past to present, leading us to where we are now, not just a list of wars, dates, and names. Those names were people, they lived and loved, they worked, fought, and died. Some we know about, most we don’t, but I love reading and learning about the stories […]
Not another celebrity biography at all
My experience with Aziz Ansari prior to getting this audiobook was as follows. Playing exuberant, outgoing and quite exasperating pop culture and fashion obsessive Tom Haverford on Parks and Recreation, then more recently in Master of None as struggling New York actor Dev, who while quite different from Tom, frequently exasperated me nonetheless with his constant whining and inability to accept how good he had it, being really very privileged even as a minority actor. As a result, I wasn’t really all that interested in […]
Dear Fake Character People: An Open Letter to (most of) the Characters in Sense and Sensibility
A couple of years ago for CBR6, I re-read Jane Eyre, and because I was overwhelmed with the task of writing a review for such a classic book, I decided to get weird and write the review in the form of letters to the characters. Since then, with an eventual plan to re-read all of Jane Austen’s books, I’ve had it in the back of my mind that I’d do the same with as many future classic books that I could. So. This is me […]