This may be my biggest pet peeve in literature – writing dialogue sans quotation marks. I’ve ranted about it time and time again, because it doesn’t make you edgy, it makes you exhausting. Plus this book felt like a more boring knockoff of The Girls, by Emma Cline, which I also hated. Mostly because of the cult stuff. What happens is, I look over these lists of “best books of XYZ” and chuck them all on my hold list at the library because why not, forgetting […]
Somehow Douglas Adams + Neil Gaiman doesn’t work
On the surface, this book was made for me. A biography of Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, as taken down by Neil Gaiman. It was like someone reached into my head and wrote out my wildest dreams. And look at that cover! I am so easily sold with a good cover, y’all. There is so much that this book could have been and yet it wasn’t. I just didn’t feel this book. I appreciated Gaiman writing about Adams in the style of […]
I do this to myself, eyes wide open
I’ve laid out my feelings on Sarah J. Maas books. And I feel like – unlike with the Court of Thorns and Roses – the consensus here about Throne of Glass is pretty clear. They nestle comfortably somewhere just below a love/hate. It would take more energy than they’re worth to either love or hate them, but they are the good of bad writing. You don’t want to read them, but you also can’t put them down. And so it is with Tower of Dawn. I’m not going to […]
The story deserves a better book
The story here is dark and horrifying and fascinating. It reads almost unbelievable but it is entirely 100% true. In the beginning of the 20th century, the Osage people owned both the land and the head rights in Oklahoma when oil was discovered under their feet. Despite a deeply unfair system, they successfully argued to keep the head rights and rent the land, skyrocketing to become the richest people per capita in the country. And, because of evil and cunning and the loopholes built into […]