I made the mistake of reading Fear: Trump in the White House followed by The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World while living in the United Sewer…
Posts tagged 2018 Books
Day 38 of 200: Vox
This week I tore through Christina Dalcher’s novel Vox which was kinda terrifying in a “Handmaid” kinda way but with much less rape. In this, the US has elected an unqualified dickhead with a penchant…
Day 22 of 200: Obsessed with Baby Teeth
I’ve spent the last 36 hours reading, thinking about, or thinking about reading Baby Teeth a compact, claustrophobic horror show of a novel by Zoje Stage. It was SO GOOD! Stage’s book grabs you by…
Day 17 of 200: Fruit of the Drunken Tree
I was up until the wee small hours of the morning finishing Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ phenomenal debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree and thus I’ve not been at the top of my game. However,…
Such Catty, Bitchy Fun
This was a delightful surprise since I loathed Knoll’s first book with a frothy passion. It was such a pile of hot garbage that I think I kinda got The Favorite Sister just because I…
448 Pages of Nope
A.J. Finn’s The Woman in the Window is one of the most buzzed up books of 2018. It’s been on every “most-anticipated” list I read and has blurbs from Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, and Ruth…
Totally a 5-Star Read
Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay With Me, was a slow starter for me. In fact, I started reading it in like October or November of last year and returned it to the library unfinished. It wasn’t working…
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
When my sisters and I were younger mom used to wonder, aloud, if we’d ever get along. She would get really upset when we would say “I hate you” or “I hate her” to and…