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One Last Stop
An incredibly cute magical realist WLW romance between a college student and a mysterious rugged girl trapped on a subway and…in time…
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
★★★★☆ This book was a revelation. I love a book that peels back the lies marketing and Hollywood have shoved into our brains, and this book really does that for food.
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
★★★★☆ Jia Tolentino is my absolute favourite cultural critic and essayist. She speaks to me and on topics I care about with such acerbic clarity and personality. My favourite essays from this collection…
Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker
★★★★☆ Devoured this in a day after re-watching the movie recently, because I was interested in Molly Bloom and also wanted the dirt on the celebs she names. Not quite as self-critical as I personally would’ve preferred and more than a little self-congratulatory/self-absolving in the end.
The Marrow Thieves
★★★★☆ The idea of extracting the bone marrow of Indigenous people is so chilling. But Indigenous people having the unique ability to dream in this post-apocalyptic future is a beautiful counterpoint, and something that is given several incredibly evocative narrative moments.
The Hidden Witch (The Witch Boy #2)
★★★★☆ The second book in The Witch Boy graphic novel series. A wonderful world of queer witchcraft, deep friendships, and healing inherited family traumas. This second instalment focuses on themes of isolation, bullying, and adolescent angst.
Stormbreaker (Alex Rider #1)
★★★★☆ So cinematic, so cool, spy goodness with no extra fat or fluff, just a preternaturally talented teen spy, shady spy agency, some of the coolest action sequences put to the written word, garishly hateful yet trim villains, high stakes world-saving hijinks, bulls-eye set-ups and pay-offs, sensational sensorial action-driven writing, and a complicated series-spanning teen spy/hired assassin rivalry.
My Lovely Wife
★★★★☆ Really juicy Gone Girl-esque murder-y psychological thriller about a married couple that starts killing people to get off. Doesn’t get too crazy twisted but is just enough to be super satisfying and fun to read.
My Sister, the Serial Killer
★★★★☆ Written in the perspective of a nice but annoyingly pushover woman whose little sister is a psychopath who kills the men she dates that the woman then has to help cover up for.
Watership Down
★★★★☆ Found this pristine paperback edition at a thrift store in my hometown and semi-recognized the title and then just died laughing at the back summary which is so epic but then you discover a few sentences in its all RABBITS.
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
★★★★★ Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read.
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
★★★★☆ Not as provocative as the title would suggest.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
★★★★★ The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers.