Someone once told me, "Well, I don't think you're going to find anyone who reads as much as you do." From the mouth of someone who continually asks me for book recommendations based solely on their own likes! (Also, there are people clocking 150-200 books a year on Goodreads. My 50-60 books is nothing compared… Continue reading Best Books of 2022
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Best Books of 2021
This list is in no particular order. . . 1. The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov: This treasured classic opens as if it was the set up for one long joke. "The devil runs into two Russian atheists in the park. . ." This is a novel of contrasting extremes with some absurdity thrown… Continue reading Best Books of 2021
Worst Books of 2021
This list is in no particular order. . . 1. Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas by Fernando A. Flores: Such a disappointment! I loved Flores's 2019 novel, Tears of the Trufflepig, and compared to it this book of short stories was terribly esoteric at times. About being punk in many forms, it… Continue reading Worst Books of 2021
Bastard Children of the South
I was watching an interview with Michael Shannon recently where he said he enjoys acting, because it gives him a chance to behave in certain ways he'd be reprimanded for in real life. Which makes me wonder. . . do playwrights/writers create over the top, idiosyncratic characters because they also understand that socially they can't act… Continue reading Bastard Children of the South
10 Books That Have Influenced Me as a Female
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (I never thought I would relate to a memoir written in the early 90s about a girl in a psychiatric hospital in the 60s, but here we are. Kaysen raises some interesting questions about the sexism of the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (which is what she suffers from) and… Continue reading 10 Books That Have Influenced Me as a Female
Like Wild Onions 