So back in June I hit an amazing reading streak and read four books in a month (and 1 that i read a majority of and then a skimmed the end because I was so over it) and I was totally gonna review them later and *cough* *looks at calendar* looks like it’s later! Since it’s been a while since I read those books I’m just gonna do some mini reviews of each of them. 1. The Pisces by Melissa Broder You already know it’s […]
The fantasy is a lie
I have to wonder how pissed Melissa Broder was when The Shape of Water came out. Not so much that it exists, but that it became such a thing. Because her book was almost definitely all done and in the can. Anyway, this is an otherwise kind of formulaic “Fear of Flying” kind of breakup novel about a grad student who has an unfinished dissertation about Sappho’s poetry trying to figure out how to spend her final summer before her funding is pulled. She moves […]