Towards the beginning of Hand to Mouth, Tirado defines her terms as follows: “Poverty is when a quarter is a fucking miracle. Poor is when a dollar is a miracle. Broke is when five dollars is a miracle. Working class is being broke, but doing so in a place that might not be so worn down. Middle class is is being able to own some toys and to live in a nice place… And rich is anything above that.” Regardless of where you fall on that […]
What was I really expecting, with a title like that…
I had said after reading Punkzilla that I was getting too old for a certain type of YA novel — the ones full of partying and drinking and teens disobeying their parents. I don’t mind these in service of a good story, but they rarely are. Alas, I had already purchased fml, so I read the damn thing anyway and…yep. Punks kids all over my lawn. “People aren’t meant to be perfect. We’re all imperfect people looking for perfect moments to share with other imperfect people.” So, fml […]
“An atmosphere, a force – I do not exactly know what to call it – of evil and uncleanness, of terror and suffering, of malevolence and bitter anger”
I’ve heard this book lauded as a classic horror novel, but it’s really nothing more than a sort of dull ghost story. The blurb on Goodreads calls it “a ghost story written by Jane Austen”, but it’s a pretty poor imitation of her style, in my opinion. “No, no, you have none of you any idea. This is all nonsense, fantasy, it is not like this. Nothing so blood-curdling and becreepered and crude – not so…so laughable. The truth is quite other, and altogether more […]
This book. You should read this book.
I finished this book over a week ago, loved loved loved it, but then life happened and now I’m 7 books behind on my reviews again. But let me just say, I know most of y’all’s tastes by now, and I think you’d really like this one. It’s like a super angry version of Feminist Fight Club. “Consider this book, then, a feminist anatomy of the trainwreck. It’s an effort to figure out who she is: why she’s making us so angry; what, in general, she […]