Book Review: Today Will Be Different
12.4.2016
Off the Powell's New + Recommended shelf, I picked up Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple. And unfortunately, it won't be finding it's way to my 'New + Recommended' list any time soon. The book follows Eleanor through a particularly whirl-wind day, from her son Timby feigning illness to her husband …
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Book Review: It Ends With Us
12.3.2016
It Ends With Us is a harrowing story of love and abuse, and how abusive relationships aren't usually as black-and-white as we like to think. 'It Ends With Us' follows Lily Bloom as she opens her own flower shop and falls in love with a surgeon, Ryle Kincaid. With a …
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Book Review: I'm Thinking of Ending Things
11.1.2016
I'm Thinking of Ending Things is a debut novel by Iain Reid, and was a surprising delight to read. Like most books I checked it out only knowing that Powell's had it on their 'New + Recommended' list, and was pleased when I found myself in the middle of a psychological …
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Book Review: The Girls
10.20.2016
Ahh, the much anticipated, celebrity-book-listed, book of the Fall season, The Girls by Emma Cline. I was very intrigued by this book since it had been hyped so much, and after reading it am somewhat mystified by the noise around it. Don't get me wrong, this isn't a bad book …
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Book Review: The Art of Racing in the Rain
10.16.2016
While doing chores and running errands this weekend, I had a chance to read The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. As a dog owner and lover I was simultaneously excited and wary of another book about a dog where the dog inevitably the dog dies at …
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Book Review: Sex Object
10.4.2016
I picked this book up off of Powell's "New + Recommended" list, and had little background on Jessica Valenti. I knew it was branded as 'Feminist', whatever that means, but didn't know much else going in. Unlike many books I finish, my feelings about it are complex.
The book is a …
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Book Review: The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
09.27.2016
For whatever reason, this past month I had a hard time getting into any books. This is in part because so much of my attention was directed at my new job, in part because nothing I was really excited to read came in, in part because I was spending a …
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