My original goal was to read 60 books in 2018. I upped the number to 70 this summer. I’m currently in the midst of book 74 (The Witch Elm by Tana French). Amazing what you…
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Day 82 of 200: Worrying About Losing Gidget
Tonight I’ll probably finish reading Sally Field’s memoir In Pieces. It’s been way more interesting thing I expected. I’m not entirely sure what I expected, but I wasn’t prepared for so much gut-wrecnching honesty about…
Day 61 of 200: Tiny Beautiful Things Revisited
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…
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,…