Wonder Show by Hannah Barnaby
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. I beg to differ. See that cover over there on the left? Kind of amazing, right? And the hand drawn goodness wraps around to the back as well. In...
View ArticleMajor Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
You know how after you read Pride and Prejudice you were like, “I am never going to find a book so well written with such a meaningful love story but I’m still gonna try”? Well, stop looking! Before I...
View ArticleChelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler
Okay, so, full disclosure: I am not a huge Chelsea Handler fan. So take what I am going to say with a grain of salt. This book is…embarrassing. Like, I know her brand of humor is less…sophisticated...
View ArticleThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
So, this book has been waiting to be reviewed for ages. And it has nothing to do with the quality of this book. Or, actually, it does. It’s like a negative correlation: the better the book the harder...
View ArticleThe Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade
I know what you’re thinking: What are you reading ipsedixit? And to that I reply, I know. I KNOW. But I’ve been dealing with some heavy stuff of late and I needed some light reading. And I might have...
View ArticleThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
So-called minorities tend to have a tense relationship with the scientific/medical field in any society. And yes, this “tense” relationship almost always includes restricted access to good health...
View ArticleBeautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
You guys, this book. I understand that smutty love novels are a thing right now, what with Twilight and Fifty Shades of whatever being super hits. And I guess that’s the reason why this book is a...
View ArticleLet’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
You know that one friend that we all have who insists they had the weirdest childhood? And then when you ask for anecdotal proof, it’s always a wah-wah? Because, seriously. Who among us doesn’t have...
View ArticleBreed: A Novel by Chase Novak
I’ve never really read anything from the Horror genre. Unless you count those scary stories that were ubiquitous growing up, which not many horror-genre fanatics would (seriously, though, why was it...
View ArticleWarm Bodies by Isaac Marion
Full disclosure: I’m not one for zombie novels. Or zombie anything, really. And it’s not for lack of trying. I’ve seen The Walking Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, 28 Days Later and I Am Legend and...
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