The man really does love lists

man‘s right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

I love this for us

Are you sure the character with a cockney accent is from Liverpool?

You can‘t DO that, Stephen!

Reading modern kids spout this boomer-ass dialogue is… something else

In a Stephen King novel?!

Stephen King inventing the singular y‘all?

We love a historical ad lib

Even lady horses get descriminated against, smh

Wait, did Psycho come out on my birthday?

Is this book interminably slow or does it just seem like it because I‘m listening to it as an audio book?

The book has THIS COVER and the first chapter is about a lawyer having a panic attack during her first trial. I feel lied to, betrayed, and bamboozled.

And I just love this quote

I don‘t think you get to use the word peripatetic twice in one book, I‘m sorry.

Nicolas Cage identifying strongly with Heathcliff just… makes so much sense

Yes, give me all if that.

I‘m gonna do that next time I lose a case ⚖️

Stop bugging mom about business college

Hmmm

Boy Howdy ⚖️

Me: I don‘t get poetry

Also me: aw, yeah, that‘s my shit

Also, pretty rude not to ask your gargoyle‘s name.

I don‘t think I agree with Book Riot‘s assessment that this book is not about Black pain.

Honestly, I KNOW all memoirs, especially of childhood, are an amalgamation of different memories to create coherent stories. Unless perhaps the author was a prolific journaler from an early age. But the cracks are really showing in this one.

Since it came out, I have loved the 2018 movie adaptation of We Have Always Lived in the Castle

And now that I‘m trying to read the original, let‘s just say the first page does not have me disappointed

How to tell if your author‘s take on their main character is genuine 101: these are her SJW issues 😒

POV: it‘s April 2020 and you just put out a book with a side character named Rona

😑

Oh yeah, I work at... the restaurant... #sus

This novel is beautifully written but surprisingly brutal. Everyone goes around ignoring each other‘s feelings in a way that is almost cruel and that makes for a very frustrating 500+ pages.

The plot goes nowhere and ends with a thud on a non sequitur. And the only two characters to have anything approaching a real arc (out of myriads) are two of the “bad guys.”

Wish my original pick for my #readharder2020 #doorstopper had worked out. 🤷🏻‍♀️

1. I don‘t think the blog stuff is realistic at all

2. It is genuinely upsetting reading about the Obama election from this remove

3. So many one-off characters!?!!???

But the story rattles along in a vey readable way, told from a not-too-common perspective in American literature. I‘m glad I read it.

This was supposed to be my #readharder2020 doorstopper published after 1950, written by a woman, but it‘s not over 500 pages! 😫

My #readharder2020 pick for a picture book with a human main character from a marginalized community (though I suppose you could argue that the car is the main character)

So this was not really my thing. But I guess if you‘re only going to read one novella where Sherlock Holmes is Dr. Who and Watson is the TARDIS, this should be it.

My #readharder2020 sci-fi/fantasy novella

Really could have done without the fat kid side character named Slopper. And I‘m not sure how many times you‘re actually allowed to pull the “but little did we know, life as we know it was about to change forever” method of creating a cliffhanger, but it‘s got to be fewer times than it is attempted here.

But still it was affecting. And that ending took me OUT.

Read for #readharder2020 prompt “a book about climate change”

A little tone deaf at times and the switching back and forth between narrators made the flow a bit choppy and difficult to follow. Basically I‘d this is on or with any given smutty fan fic. But I‘ve read much better sports RPF than this...

Read for #readharder2020: a romance about a single parent

Uhhh, weirdly racial?

In the next paragraph he also says “every African American” he sees reminds him of his husband. So.

This book was BARELY saved from being a pan by the conclusion of the restaurant story started in the first chapter, dropped for the rest of the book, and returned to in the penultimate chapter. Otherwise I‘m not sure why anyone would read this weirdly braggy memoir. (Read for the #ReadHarder2020 prompt “a food book about a cuisine you‘ve never tried before”—which turned out to be mostly untrue)

A memoir by someone from a religious tradition that is not your own: the details of Hasidic life feel like something you know of but you don‘t really KNOW, very enlightening #readharder2020

A debut novel by a queer author: non-binary protag by a non-binary author! #readharder2020 #quarantinereading

For the #readharder2020 prompt “a book that takes place in a rural setting.” This turned out to be a surprisingly nuanced take on queerness and its intersection with the small town church community. Something I never knew I wanted, but that I really loved!

The LAST book in a series (okay, duology) for #readharder2020
I don‘t think these books are exactly For Me but I do think they‘re worthwhile if you like Siblings and Magic and Beauty so I‘d still tecommend.

The book is good, but I really wish I hadn‘t read it as an audiobook (confirmed: not my thing!) and if I hadn‘t been told it was written in verse, I would have had no idea.

A new adventure: an audiobook of poetry! (despite near-constant intake of podcasts, I don‘t listen to audiobooks at all) #readharder2020

I liked this very much. Bits of it were rather melodramatic. But, even so, I found the main character‘s reactions to those events to be realistic. And it‘s set a tumultuous and specific time and place that I had never give much thought to before. Plus the cover is so shiny!

Now for a historical fiction novel not set in WWII #readharder2020 (specifically, set in 1977)