* Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi (thumbs up ( Read more... )

OK, I also have to admit to one tiny personal disappointment with The Girl With All The Gifts. It is possible that what I am about to discuss could be considered a spoiler, so proceed at your own discretion. Also there are mildly gory true-life biological experiment details involving animal subjects below ( Read more... )

It's summer! I have free time again! So let's catch up with my bookshelves, shall we ( Read more... )

I just finished The Sellout by Paul Beatty. That was quite a roller coaster ride.

1. I am still here ( Read more... )

I'm about halfway through "Disrupted," Dan Lyons' account of his year at HubSpot.

It's making me feel better about my years at both FriendFinder and at HAF.

This is a sad thing.

The book, though, is entertaining as heck.

I finished The Lost Time Accidents last night. I remain charmed. I wish I knew other folks who were reading it so I could discuss sensibly the choices the book makes at the end and what they mean -- character-wise, writing-wise, etc. Also I wish to note that it was chock-full of eccentric but fully realized women characters, and that was nice.

Still reading "The Lost Time Accidents." We have moved past WWI and into WWII, and yes, thank you, the resonances with our current political climate are present, if mostly backgrounded. The more obvious SF jokes/references (writer "Orson Card Tolliver," the "Church of Synchronology") are a little distracting, and bound to be more so as we head ( Read more... )

I read I Miss the World by Violet LeVoit on the (non-personal) recommendation of nihilistic_kid. While I didn't find it as mind-bendy as all the review quotes pumped it up to be, I thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it highly. It's a short read, almost all dialogue (held in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery), and if you like unreliable narrators you will love this ( Read more... )

I just did a quick read of Girl Trouble, an "illustrated memoir" of female friendships by Kerry Cohen illustrated by her older sister, Tyler. It's really good. It's got me thinking about my own friendships, or sometimes lack thereof. I think debbieann in particular would enjoy this book.