Rating this book sucks. I almost question whether doing so is a mistake on my part. When it comes to sensitive topics, how necessary or efficient are ratings? I would hate for a lower rating to deter anyone away from picking this up, or that it would in anyway minimize the subject matter explored. Now, [...]
I completely had a different idea of what I was getting myself into. In fact, I think there needs to be a cover change for this book, because the current one gives off the vibe of a soft-natured/run-of-the-mill contemporary. What’s inside is most definitely not that. In fact, I had the bizarre idea in my [...]
I desperately wish that I had loved this. However, I did not, and while I may not have liked this book, it is by no means a bad one. This just happens to be one of those it’s me, not you scenarios. Anna K is a modern retelling of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. We follow a large cast [...]
I seldom get a reading high. That adrenaline rush you get when you complete a book within hours, reading it from cover to cover, and glorifying all of its content. However, I did get one by reading In Five Years. Sure, after giving it a few days I was able to see the errors I’d purposefully [...]
I've been thinking back to the whirlwind that was this book and...wow. It's been a long time since I've read a book that was this gripping yet powerful. I cannot express into words how much I LOVED this book. It's a weird and an original concept that is executed beautifully. There are so many pieces [...]
Rating: Listen, I want to be Taylor Jenkins Reid trash. I want to love every single one of her books, have them all displayed on a pretty shelf, and proudly claim she is my favorite author. But friends, as a good group of pals (The Rolling Stones) once said: you can’t always get what you want. [...]
"Creating art is a lonely task, which is why we introverts revel in it, but when we have fans looming over us, it becomes loneliness of a different sort. We become caged animals watched by zoo-goers, expected to perform lest the crowd grow bored or angry. It’s not always bad. Sometimes we do well, and [...]
Rating: TW: rape, homophobia Honestly, I don’t want to write this review. I realize a three star rating isn’t bad, but I had such high hopes for this one that giving it anything less than four stars feels like a betrayal. If we’re being frank, Beartown is about a rape in a small town. When [...]
This was a momentous occasion in my reading life, because I self-proclaimed Misster Reader did not finish this book. Granted, I am still counting it as a read book, because I read the vast majority of it until I realized there really was no point in continuing. Originally, I thought I might force myself to [...]
Rating: Eh, if by Everything All At Once we're referring to the lack of substance until the last twenty pages, then yes I'd say that's a pretty accurate title. For the last few months I’ve heard a lot of hype surrounding Katrina Leno. Albeit, more toward Summer of Salt than anything else. However, I thought I’d start [...]
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