I’ve owned this book in hardcover since it was first published in 2006. Every once in a while over the last twelve years or so, I’ve looked at it and thought, oh I should read that, and then proceeded to not do that. This was in my college years, when I bought books a) Just because they were pretty, b) When I couldn’t afford them, and c) Indiscriminately, without doing any research about them. I had not read any Stephen King yet, at all, either, so yeah, let’s buy this […]
“Name one hero who was happy.”
This isn’t going to be a long review. Sometimes I read books and I just want to sit with them and not talk about them at all. This book felt like that, like a little gift I’d been given and I just want to keep it to myself for a while. But I haven’t been behind in reviews at all in 2018 and I want to keep it that way. I’m so proud of my little self. So I will try to bust something out. […]
A surprising read on marriage, motherhood, and loneliness.
This is definitely a book I wouldn’t have picked up on my own, but am glad my book club chose it. It’s nice to read outside my comfort zone every once in a while, and especially when the book turns out to be one that works out for you. Stay With Me is nominally a book about a Nigerian woman named Yejide whose husband brings home a second wife, because Yejide is unable to get pregnant, and his family is pressuring them to have a child. […]
I can’t rate this book, but my IRL book club got great discussion out of it.
Just a warning: This review will spoil a main plot point of the novel, because I don’t know how to talk about it at all without mentioning it, even though said plot point doesn’t occur until about halfway through. If you don’t want to be spoiled (and really, in this case, I think you should be so you know what you’re getting into), here is a brief summary of my feelings on this book, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: Extremely well written. Puts you […]