Hey Darling Ones, When it comes to coincidences I hate them in fiction. The only thing I hate more in fiction is a coy narrator. When I’m reading a book nothing makes me fart-noise while…
Posts tagged 2022 Books
Q1 Book Report: What I’ve Read so Far in 2022
Hi Darling Ones, I’ve been in a weather-induced funk. Too many grey days stacked up in a row leaving me tipped over on the couch shoving junk-foodesque mysteries into my brain while also whining about…
Klosterman Should Keep Liz Phair’s Name Out of His Mouth
Darling Ones, I’m not quite done criticizing the Klosterman book. Part of me wants to make a joke about how I have not yet begun to bitch about this insidious book. Then there’s the part…
The Correct Answer is Nobody
Hey Darling Ones, As you may remember I read Chuck Klosterman’s new book, The Nineties, last week. I read a lot of it twice because I was really fucking sick Monday and nothing stuck with…
Nöthin’ But a Good Time
So, Darling Ones, Recently, I read Nöthin’ But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the ’80s Hard Rock Explosion by Tom Beaujour & Richard Bienstock. When they include the word “uncensored” in that subtitle,…
Jodi is Okay?
Hi Darling Ones, I feel about Weike Wang’s novels the same way I do about Sally Rooney’s novels. While I’m in the books I’m all in. I’m never really sure where things are going or…