Mrs. Julien’s review of Waiting for Clark reminded me that I had picked up two Annabeth Albert books following ellepkay’s reviews, and should probably read them in between library books. While owning my romance reading habits, I have also been attempting to be more LGBTQ inclusive in my reading overall (with varying degrees of success), and felt overdue in that department. Let’s start with the good. Waiting for Clark is based on a prompt and image given to Albert as part of the Goodreads M/M […]
They’re Just These Two Guys, You Know?
The Read Harder Challenge this year included a task to read a play. I never really enjoy reading plays, and I have read quite a few over the years. In high school, as an IB kid, I read no less than 10 Shakespeare plays. It was… grueling? It is this particular understanding of myself that made me immediately turn away from the idea of studying to be a dramaturg while my friend Gina was in grad school at Yale. But, I signed up for the […]
“Hm,’ said Bond. ‘Bogeyman stuff.”
I had fallen off pace for my goal this year (I’m still 2 books behind, better than the 8 I was a month ago), and an Audible coupon delivered a few, short, James Bond books to my queue. Surely I could knock out an under 7-hour book in under a week of commuting? Well, that plan only works if the book is enjoyable and you can make yourself listen to it. A quick note: my problems with this book were not the narration stylings of […]
Girls In Pants
I don’t remember exactly what caught my eye about this book, if it was the cover, the blurb, the title itself, janniethestrange’s review, or any other of the many things which could have done it. But I know that I probably plopped it on to my to read list simply because I know what I don’t know, and I don’t know much about Afghanistan, even though the American war there started as I was coming into my adulthood and had definite opinions about why we […]