

Review: Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao (Spoiler-Free)
Disclaimer: I read this book while high on narcotics post-spinal surgery. Forgive me if some details escape my mind. As you can tell by...
★★★-3
May 8, 2024


Re-Read Review: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green (Spoiler-Alert)
The way he talked about thoughts was the way I experienced them—not as a choice, but as a destiny. Not a catalog of my consciousness, but...
★★★★★-5
Apr 29, 2024


Review: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (Spoiler-Free)
I used to imagine the sea as something that seethed and then quieted, a froth of activity tapering down into the dark and still. I know...
★★★-3.25
Apr 18, 2024


Review: Voices of the Lost by Hoda Barakat (Spoiler-Free)
Look, I don't make the rules. Epistolary novels just hit. I saw a whole lot of hubbub in other reviews saying that an epistolary story...
★★★★-4
Apr 11, 2024


Review: No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (Spoiler-Free)
Am I what they call an egoist? Or am I the opposite, a man of excessively weak spirit? I really don't know myself, but since I seem in...
★★★★-4.5
Apr 9, 2024


Review: Moriarty the Patriot, Vol. 3 by Ryōsuke Takeuchi (Spoiler-Free)
This has been my least favorite of the series so far, but it's still Sherlock and Moriarty, so how bad could it be? The first half of...
★★★-3
Apr 8, 2024


Review: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (Spoiler-Free)
I studied abroad in Spain and my favorite author wrote a book set in Madrid. This is my Roman Empire. I've known about this book for over...
★★★-3.5
Apr 6, 2024


Review: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo (Spoiler Alert)
Our bodies are food for worms. Why should our souls not be made meals too? This was one hell of a sequel. See what I did there?...
★★★★-4
Mar 27, 2024


Review: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry (Spoiler-Free)
We are just looking at each other. There are no hard edges to grab hold of, no distinct markers on this moment's beginning or end,...
★★★★-4.5
Feb 19, 2024


Review: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Spoiler-Free, re-read)
what rock was i living under when i gave this four stars 'Look around. What do you see? People in costumes, horns, fake jewels, adorning...
★★★★★-5
Feb 9, 2024