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I’m not always a liar, but if there’s a way to get out of something, I will. Do less, stay in bed, rot away to nothing – that’s the goal. The transition from grade 7 to grade 8 is something I try not to think about. High school. I can feel my friends slipping away
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I finally finished it! I am intrigued and very engaged while reading this, but when I put it down, it’s also easy to not pick up. I like the twisted character dynamics, but sometimes they just talk and talk and it’s so long and I just get bored. Mostly this is Henry. The characters are
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This was good, but heavy. It also didn’t really transport me, I couldn’t really get a sense of time or place so sometimes things would confuse me and pull me out of the story. The tone was very serious and sometimes I wished for a bit of another character to have a some relief (and
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If you haven’t read anything by this author you are missing out. The way she so effortlessly weaves a tale so quickly and yet feels so rich, it’s quite a sight to see. They usually start a little slow, but there’s enough nuggets to keep you curious. The first bit is overly cheery and perfect
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This weekend was intense for me. I signed up for a storytelling workshop, expecting to learn how to craft stories, since I have been stuck with my novel for years. It’s a storyTELLING workshop, aka how to voice your story for an audience, with a live performance on Wednesday. I felt like I was having
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“I think it would be much easier to be a virgin, marry someone and then find out what life is all about.” – this is the central theme. Drugs and sex are bad. This was very thin. There wasn’t much detail in the journal entries, I feel like I didn’t know who Alice was other
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Read 13 Listened to 7 3 – 5 stars (The Answers by Catherine Lacey was my fave, with Recitatif and So Late in the Day as close seconds) 5 -1.5 or less Mixed month, but one of my best reading months (due to me reading 9 books that were very short). I did this purposely
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Wow, this was an incredible short story. I went in blind, skipping the introduction (literally long than the short story itself). I was confused by who was who, as race kept coming up, but I thought throughout multiple parts it was Twyla, then Roberta, then I read the summary and realized that was the whole
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47 pages and we get all of Cathal’s history and how he behaves, and how his relationship with Sabine failed, somehow with such rich detail. All it feels like is quick snapshot of him at work, him with her as she moves in, a quick fight, a memory of his father and mother, and him
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Hey so, I hated this. The thing about this book is it has a very specific sense of humor, one that isn’t really my taste (overly scientific names of things to make them sound quirky and intelligent). Kind of Rick and Morty like. And it just gets old. Maybe if I read it when I
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