This year kind of got away from me. I didn’t realize that my last review was all the way back in April. That feels like decades ago honestly. I was noticing that almost all of my favorite books from this year got read after that, so I wanted to catch up a bit with reviews for some of my favorite 2018 books. Despite the lack of reviews, I’ve had an extraordinarily good reading year. Soooo many books and a good chunk of them were 4 […]
Thanks, Allison O!
Book mail is always the best mail! Many thanks to Allison O. for sending me the books below and for this gorgeous watercolor card. We have some seriously talented people in CBR. I love that both books have a feminist edge!
A book I apparently read while I was asleep
I think I liked this book? Maybe? Honestly, it’s been several weeks since I read it and I’m struggling to remember basic plot and characters. Which is its own sort of damning review in a way. Granted, I’m not great at remembering details of books, but they don’t usually get lost in my brain quite so quickly as this one seems to have. Strongly relying on the Goodreads summary for this one. Isaac Severy, mathematician and beloved grandfather dies in what appears to be a […]
Living in her white bread world
2.5 stars. Like I said in my last review, I read The Female Persuasion at the same time as Girls Burn Brighter and I think I liked The Female Persuasion less than I would have otherwise. It was like sitting by a pretty lamp while the sun is shining gloriously outside. Pleasant, but not exactly life changing. Or even week changing. Greer Kadetsky, a lower middle class white girl born to underachiever parents, finds herself at her safety school Freshman year. Not because she couldn’t […]