You know, I had a very lovely Tuesday planned that involved reading, possibly finishing, one of the four wonderful books I’m currently reading. And then the mail came with two books I pre-ordered, and those plans were shot to fuck. It seems that Jasmine Warga and her debut novel My Heart and Other Black Holes had vastly different ideas about how my day off would be spent. I can’t remember the last time I inhaled a book, cover to cover, within the span of an […]
I think I preferred the Fox Family version
I hate the five-star rating scale sometimes. What does each rating even mean? And what exactly do you give a book that’s barely okay in writing and plot-wise is “not that bad” and occasionally interesting, adding up to a an overwhelming sense of meh? Two, you give it two stars. And let me tell you why.
The not-real tale of a musical-loving, book-reading, clever fat virgin who just wants to fit in
“My biggest secret of all—the one I would rather die than tell, the one I wouldn’t even put in my diary—is that I really, truly, in my heart, want to be beautiful. I want to be beautiful so much—because it will keep my safe, and keep me lucky, and it’s too exhausting not to be.” This is my first CBR year and my first attempt at a book review, so be kind, and only throw the softest and freshest of vegetables my way. Fortunately, I made […]