Category Archives: book reviews

trick mirror ugh jia tolentino is such a good writer tbh, when i got my new yorker subscription the first thing i did was read her entire backlog in like two nights. i’ve been following her work since jezebel and it’s really exciting tbh! anyway i really enjoyed this book of essays, and i liked […]

long time no write, blog. things have been weird and difficult recently and updating this has seemed literally insurmountably hard, but i also didn’t stop reading in that time, so we’ve got a backlog — reviews under the cut.

things are really hard right now. more details when i feel up to it, but in the mean time: here are three excellent books i read. “her body and other parties” is a series of short stories. many of them are horror, and also many of them made me laugh. the weakest i think was […]

man i don’t know that i can actually write the review i want to write? it’s one of the many weird things about having a dead dad, that talking about the things i wish were different about my dad feels like a betrayal. so — who knows. one day i’ll write a proper review! in […]

i saw this while scrolling through the library app! i loved this book immensely as a Youth — i blew through it in a few hours while panicking over job hunt stuff and enjoyed it just as much now as i ever did

for the most part, i enjoyed this! i was kind of not expecting to tbh, but — — i mean, i grew up in seattle in an evangelical household; i’ve more or less gotten over a lot of it, but between the self conscious yuppified hippie bullshit and the evangelical damage, my big stupid pollyanna […]

comics comics comics i had an hour to kill at the evanston public library, so i read some comics.

it was — fine. i have very little to say about this.

basically the polar opposite of the power: the first part of the book was a miserable slog, with a solid payoff at the end.