I read this book almost two months ago. Reading books has been a bit easier this year, but the reviewing seems about four times as difficult as years past. I’ll see what I can do. I do remember picking this up from the library because of name recognition. Aline Brosh McKenna is a powerhouse writer and co-creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which I finally truly began to understand this third season. I was intrigued that McKenna had written a graphic novel based on Jane Eyre, and […]
12: The Power
I’ve heard a ton of buzz about this book. One of my dear friends had read and raved about this book, and it made President Obama’s list of best books for 2017, alongside my book of the year, Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing. I had high hopes. The premise intrigued me. What would we do in a world where women had all the power and the tables were turned on the class and power dynamic? The problem starts when you look at a metaphor–power–and turn […]
11: Behold the Dreamers
I read Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers for CBR8, and I’ve included my original review link here. F has chosen this for our February book club, and I’m excited to discuss it with the group. I am trying not to re-read books, since my TBR is enormous, but I was very glad to revisit this novel. In the wake of the 2016 election, the topic of immigrants and their American Dreams takes on an added importance today as we shape policy (or, in the case […]
10: Dark Matter
I enjoy trippy, alternate-universe texts, and I was looking forward to my library book club discussing Dark Matter for our February meeting. I had heard good things about this novel, and I wanted to see how it would play out. Jason Dessen is a professor at a community college living in Chicago. He goes out to celebrate his friend’s winning a prestigious award—one he had wanted to win in the years before he met his wife, got her pregnant, and then raised their child—and is […]