Review: Ready Player One
Amanda “Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.” -Ernest Cline, Ready Player One Up next on Amanda plays catch-up on her…
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Review: Bad Feminist
“Books are often far more than books.” -Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist I’m still a little (re: a lot) behind on reviewing books I’ve read for the past 3 or 4…
Review: When She Woke
“She’d crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.” -Hillary Jordan, When She Woke In a not-too-distant future, people who commit…
Review: Things I Should Have Known
“It’s like people have a place in their brain for normal, and they have a place in their brain for something obviously wrong, but they can’t deal with something just…
Review: We Are Still Tornadoes
“If you can’t forgive someone you’re close to for making a mistake, then why do apologies even exist?” -Michael Kun and Susan Mullen, We Are Still Tornadoes As Cath gets…
Review: True Letters from a Fictional Life
“I’ve always wanted to wake up one day in a world where I liked the right people, and they liked me in return. I worry it’ll never happen.” –Kenneth Logan,…
Review: The Female of the Species
“You see it in all animals – the female of the species is more deadly than the male.” -Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species When Alex’s older sister, Anna,…
Review: The Girl with All the Gifts
“Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved.” -M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts Melanie is brought to a school room everyday at gunpoint, wheeled…
Review: History Is All You Left Me
“History is nothing. It can be recycled or thrown away completely. It isn’t this sacred treasure chest I mistook it to be. We were something, but history isn’t enough to…
Review: Goodbye Days
“For the most part, you don’t hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold…