unqualified opinions from a person with no literary background
I've always been a fan of John Green, especially in my high school years. I loved their YouTube channel, and his books always resonated with me. "Looking for Alaska" was one of my favorite books growing up. But this post isn't about John Green. It's about his brother, Hank, and his first novel "An Absolutely... Continue Reading →
Let's set the record straight: I love Margaret Atwood. I've read a ton of her books, and yeah, they get pretty weird, but for the most part I'm a fan. I love The Handmaid's Tale in both its book and show forms. You know what I don't love? "The Heart Goes Last." This book has... Continue Reading →
TRIGGER WARNING: This book contains graphic depictions of sexual assault and/or violence which may be triggering to survivors. I'm not gonna lie, I initially bought My Absolute Darling because I liked the cover art and thought it would look nice on my windowsill bookshelf. I 100% judge books by their covers. I barely even read the... Continue Reading →
If anyone ever finds my Kindle, they are going to be horrified by the amount of embarrassingly non-age appropriate fiction on there. I'm serious. I live and die for books that sound like they're written for thirteen year old girls. I also have a frightening amount of romance novels that I downloaded because A. they were... Continue Reading →
I had been avoiding reading this book for a very long time. Every single time I read the description I wanted to read it less. The blurb on Amazon describes it as "a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal." That literally makes... Continue Reading →
I read this book because I saw the trailer for the movie and thought it looked incredibly cheesy. I had also just finished December Park which is about children getting snatched up, so cheesy sounded good at the moment. After finishing the book and re-watching the movie trailer for Everything, Everything, I've gotta say I'm so glad I... Continue Reading →
I adore Neil Gaiman. I hadn't read any of his books until early last year, and still haven't read many of them, but every one I have read has been everything I'd hoped it would be. I won't go into a lot of detail about the plot of this one. Some of the reviews I... Continue Reading →
"In the near future, somewhere in rural Colorado... If Zoey Ashe had known she was being stalked by a man who intended to kill her and then slowly eat her bones, she would have worried more about that and less about getting her cat off the roof." That is the first sentence of Futuristic Violence and... Continue Reading →
A Man Called Ove is about a curmudgeon of an old man who hates everyone and everything that does not act or work the way he wants them to. He sees the world in black and white, right and wrong, useful or useless. He spends his days running through routines that have been set for years and... Continue Reading →
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