I’m not sure how I stumbled across We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. I hadn’t heard of Samantha Irby or her blog, “Bitches Gotta Eat”, before picking up the book, but the title and adorably annoyed kitten on the cover called to my inner crank. And in this particular case, the essays delivered on the cover’s promise. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life tackles a broad range of topics from love, sex, family, pets, pain, the Bachelorette, money, and Civil War reenactments with a sharp […]
A Well Told Familiar Plot
I went into this almost completely blind, and it was all the better for it. The comparisons to other, more famous, entries in the women’s suspense genre that has been all the rage over the last couple of years (Gone Girl, Girl on the Train, Big Little Lies, etc.) were reason enough for me to pick it up. I love a good thriller, especially one that keeps me guessing. And this certainly delivered. The plot itself is straightforward and instantly recognizable to any fans of […]
It’s not about Gender, it’s about Power.
When my Buffy book club picked this book I couldn’t wait to tear in, but I was disappointed to find that feeling wore off pretty quickly. On the surface, the premise sounds perfect for a bunch of Buffy loving feminists – women suddenly develop the ability to create and control electricity. However, the further I got into the book the more obvious it became that the book had little interest in exploring feminism, or the patriarchy, or binary vs non-binary gender experiences at all. It used feminism as […]