I picked up Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie because Jeff O’Neal at Book Riot named it his favorite book of 2013. Plus, I had never read anything by Adichie though her novels seem universally lauded….
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The Martian
Mark Watney is fucked. He says so in the first line of Andy Weir’s sci-fi sensation The Martian. Mark’s been left for dead by his other astronaut buddies after an accident. While the rest of…
A Prickly Novel
Well now. The time has come to talk about An Untamed State by Roxane Gay. If you have been living under a rock and haven’t heard of Roxane Gay, get thee to Google. She’s an…
Of Course it Doesn’t Suck
I recently confessed on Book Riot, that I might be the slightest bit irrational when it comes to the books of Elizabeth McCracken. I discovered Elizabeth McCracken in the mid-nineties about the same time I…
So Much Promise & Even More Disappointment
Helen Oyeyeyemi’s Snow White retelling/fairy tale mishmash Boy, Snow, Bird starts out deliciously sinister, but never quite lives up to its potential. We begin with Boy Novak a horribly abused, stunningly beautiful young woman living…
Unnecessarily Name Droppy
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine is one of those novels I should have enjoyed way more than I did. A book-loving woman in her twilight years reminiscing about her life, loves, and reads? Sign…