I stumbled across this book looking for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books on Overdrive because the cover reminded me so much of them — the jeans with a purple background. Then I Googled it and saw it had a really high rating on Goodreads, so I thought I would give it a shot. This is the story of an overweight teenager and her struggles with her really, REALLY shitty family. As far as body positivity novels go about overweight teens, it falls somewhere […]
“Wear them, they will make you brave.”
I have always loved The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It came out originally when I was probably (definitely) a little too old for it, but luckily my sister like the series too so I could borrow it (see also: the Georgia Nicolson books and The Lizzie Mcguire Movie). If you’re not familiar with the series, it’s about four girls who find themselves separated over summer for the first time in 16 years. Just before they leave for their summer vacations, they find a pair of […]
Hustling, hustling
So…this was bad. Running is a book about “runners” in Greece. Basically, runners are street kids who make a living by hustling tourists to come stay at their shitty hotel. They grab tourists off the bus, talk them into staying at their place and get a cut after the unsuspecting folks have paid their bill. This is one of those books that tries so hard to be artsy and literary by bouncing around in the narrative a lot, while not really telling you anything. Instead, certain acts […]
“My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.”
Wool is one of the big books that’s been sitting on my bookshelf that I put on my list of goals to finish this year. It’s definitely a long book, and probably a lot longer than it needs to be. I felt that the pacing of the story was a little off but realized about halfway through that it originally had been released in sections, which might explain why. It’s the story of a future civilization that has survived some sort of Apocalypse by living […]