Very funny, intelligent, and engaging. 5/5 The style was a bit crazy but great for the subject.

So I just named Imagine Me Gone as the best book of 2016 for me and then I read The Nix. Now Imagine Me Gone is only my second favorite book of 2016. The Nix is hilarious, politically relevant, sad, and relatable. It has ghosts, politics, family problems, and MMORPGs. I easily empathized and related to multiple characters. 5/5 and I will definitely read it again the next time I have a book lull.

This book is amazing. Perhaps the best book I've read this year. 5/5
Imagine Me Gone is hilarious, relatable, and sad. A wonderful story of a family that seems authentic and real.

I really enjoyed the blog posts, the discussion of race in America, and the parts about Ifemelu but thought it slowed a little during Obinze's narrative. Overall it was interesting and I liked hearing about things from a new immigrant's point of view and learning about challenges one faces when first entering a new country. 4.5/5

An amazing read. 5/5 insightful, funny, and moving.

3/5 stars. I found this book definitely worth reading overall, but strangely unsatisfying. There were certain passages that really spoke to me about how everything is always bullshit, but other times it felt like I had to force myself to care about Vance and Richard and keep reading. They both annoyed me a little too much and I didn't really like or hate them enough to care about them.

"After Stan said goodbye, Richard really let loose, cried like a baby. Like his baby Cindy, when she was little, tears begetting more tears, his face a hot, smeary mess. Like the baby he was. He took some deep breaths and tried to figure out what he was feeling and why, an exercise he hadn't undertaken in years, since for years he'd always felt roughly the same way-i.e., like shit-and known why, i.e., because everything was horrible."

Throughly enjoyed reading about the art scene in New York in 1980. Also thought the characters were well developed and extremely life-like. I didn't want to put it down. 4.5/5.

I really enjoyed this book that tackled some pretty dark subjects. Claire, a former ballerina, lives in Sydney with her intelligent 12 year old sun Ethan. Ethan knows nothing about his father or why he isn't in their lives. Things change when Ethan's father Mark arrives in Sydney. The way this book is plotted is amazing. You learn tidbits of information as the story progresses to the point it reads like a mystery. Plus it is full of physics. 4.5/5

5/5 stars. An amazing novel about the life of Laura Chase, who killed herself by driving off a bridge, told by her sister Iris. There is also a novel within the novel called the Blind Assassin written by Laura Chase which was published after Laura's death by her sister. It took me a little while to really get in to the book due to the back and forth but once I was in I didn't want to put the book down, I needed to know Iris and Laura's story.

This is my current overflow book pile. I already have a full Rubbermaid tub in my closet and several full bookcases. Book obsessions and studio apartments don't mesh very well. 😂

"Lovely dear," said Miss Violence. She was fond of boundless love, but she was equally fond of hopeless melancholy.