Reviews and Comments

Reading this aloud on my radio show! (mondays 7:30-9pm on wbor.org 😶‍🌫️)

Picked this one up from a free book pile. Always a fun way to discover a new book

Zauner writes with love and self-awareness. Took me a little while to get through because it was so sad.

I was so excited about this fun queer romance, but unfortunately I just couldn't get behind it. I'm not sure if my tastes have just changed since reading McQuinston's RWRB a few years ago, but I hated the writing style. I found myself editing in my head while reading this one. I even noticed a sentence missing a period. 🫠

I certainly didn't have expectations of exceptional prose for One Last Stop - I was just there for a good time. But, the style was too clunky for me to enjoy it.

The writing is really not to my taste so far, but I'm trying to give it a chance.

So glad I was introduced to Ursula Le Guin's writing. Most of them were good, some of them were phenomenal, and a few of them were pretty boring.

Doing Dracula Daily 👀

Again, for my Classical Heroines in Contemporary Lit class. From Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe.

Unfortunately, not as compelling as I had hoped.

Note: House of Names is based on the Ancient Greek plays Agamemnon, Orestes, Electra, among others.

It was a decent book, but I feel like Toibin could have done a lot more with Clytemnestra and Electra. I really liked Clytemnestra’s narration at the beginning of the book - her character was complicated and sympathetic. But, it felt like Toibin allowed her to become mostly villainized in the end when he could have offered more of her fascinating perspective.

I did, however, enjoy the cottagecore section in the middle.