

Review: We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad (Spoiler-Alert)
Devastated to report that the sequel to my favorite book is... bad. DNF @66% I simply can't do it anymore. Mona Awad's Bunny is perfect...
DNF
Aug 31, 2025


Review: A Sentimental Education by Hannah McGregor
How do we care ferociously for one another without demanding that we become collectively legible to one another? This is a very...
★★★★-4
Aug 6, 2025


Review: Bodas de sangre by Federico García Lorca (Spoiler-Free)
MADRE: ¿Tú sabes lo que es casarse, criatura? NOVIA: ( Seria. ) Lo sé. MADRE: Un hombre, unos hijos, y una pared de dos varas de ancha...
★★★★-4
Jul 19, 2025


Review: The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson (Spoiler-Free)
'With each failure, each insult, each wound to the psyche, we are created anew.' - Theophilus Roshodan This was fun enough to read, but...
★★★-3
Jul 16, 2025


Review: The Promised Neverland, Vol. 1 by Kaiu Shirai
Unfortunately, I always feel like manga reads like a plot outline rather than a fully fleshed-out story, so I don't think i'm intrigued...
★★★-3
Jul 12, 2025


Review: Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, Translated by Tanya Leslie
When I went to the kitchen to get some ice, I would look up at the clock hanging above the door: 'only two more hours,' 'only one more hour,' or 'in one hour I'll be here and he'll be gone.' Astonished, I asked myself: 'Where is the present?' At only 67 pages, I'm astounded at how much impact this memoir (?) had on me. If you appreciate the candid nature of Sally Rooney (particularly her short story, "Mr Salary"), you're gonna love Annie Ernaux. Written as an account of her e
★★★★★-5
Jul 6, 2025


Review: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
And he came to understand how those almost mystical bonds of trust and affection, if nurtured correctly, might lift a crew above the...
★★★★★-5
Jul 6, 2025


Review: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Spoiler-Free)
She's far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abnormal sister for whom everything is fine. For her, normality—however messy—is far more comprehensible. If I had to boil this book down into one phrase it would be: Why can't everyone just leave me the fuck alone? I wasn't expecting to resonate so deeply with this strange, cathartic satire, but I couldn't help myself from inhaling the whole thing in two sittings. This s
★★★★-4.5
May 26, 2025


Review: Cold Crematorium by József Debreczeni, Translated by Paul Olchváry
I'm always astounded by what the human body and spirit can endure. Debreczeni's account of his Holocaust experience is harrowing, and...
unrated
May 24, 2025


Review: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Spoiler-Free)
I began dressing Helen Clarke in my mind, putting her in a bathing suit on a snow bank, setting her high in the hard branches of a tree...
★★★★-4
May 6, 2025
























