I‘ve never read a richer, more evocative writer.

Huh. I should apply this logic to more interactions.

A better description of God never existed

I see what she did there 🤣

Sick burns 🤣

OH GOD THAT TINY PRINT 😱

The writing was good, but the whining, self-centered, myopic protagonist was just plain unlikable.

My dad stole this book from his high school library in 1970, and now I‘m gonna try to read it without it falling apart.

I tried. It wasn‘t funny, it was just painful.

Yikes. It‘s the littlest details that make #Gilead so horrifying.

#TheTestaments #ReadingWomensChallenge

IT‘S FINALLY FUCKING HERE Y‘ALL

Ugh. I don‘t know how long I‘ll be able to hang with this book. In 2 pages he‘s referred to her as the Young Wife four times 🤮

My bff bought me this book ten years ago and I just found it in a box I still hadn‘t unpacked since moving here. Imma finally get to it ❤️

This book is taking me forever. It gets so painful in parts that I have to set it down mid sentence and walk away.

I scored this book at a Con earlier today and couldn‘t put it down. There‘s not a single bad story in this book. They‘re rich, and varied in unexpected ways, with a common fucked up thread stringing them together.

I called this one a pick, but it‘s more halfway pick, halfway so-so. There‘s so much emo and self pity it‘s hard to get through (teenagers, amirite?), but in the end, I found it worth the time spent reading it. 3/5 ⭐️

Sam‘s idiocy is hard to read through.

Awwwe, look what I found in my new used book, y‘all!
#messageshiddeninbooks

This is an interesting origin story for how witchcraft came into the world. Not at all what I expected.

Universal af

#readingwomenchallenge

“Stfu, I‘m tryna read”

Happy #internationalwomensday!

I‘ve been obsessed with the radium clock dial painters since the fourth grade. My friend‘s daughter starred in this play, but living 900 miles away, I missed it 🥺, So I‘ll just hafta read for the #readingwomenschallenge.

A wonderful, horrifying book. As someone who dreams intensely, the thought of not being able to dream at all anymore sounds like a brain damage I couldn‘t live with. I don‘t think the solution they came up with is one I could live with, either.

Just got home from the Y. Dying in progress 😥😩🤗

My kindle makes the gym bearable

#readeverywhere

(In no particular order)

1. Philip K. Dick
2. Jack Vance
3. Margaret Atwood
4. Octavia Butler
5. Sheri S. Tepper

I‘m mostly a science/dystopian fiction reader, with the occasional fantasy and chick lit sprinkled in for spice ☺️

Happy National Read In The Bathtub Day!
#readeverywhere

For a translated book published before 1945. When I picked this one, I didn‘t realize it‘s selected stories, and only two of them are pre-1945. It still counts, though, right?

#ReadingWomenChallenge2019

It‘s sweet, horrifying, and dripping with Gemma‘s hidden history. Simple and complex, a portrait of contrasts.

Next up on the #readingwomenchallenge, a book featuring a religion other than your own. I‘ve had this book for years and years, and I thought I‘d try to do as much of this challenge as I could from books I already have.
#tbrstack #readingchallenge #teaandagoodbook #readingduringthesuperbowl

It‘s well-written and flows well, but something about the second-person narration didn‘t sit well with me. It‘d make a good movie, in the vein of A League Of Their Own.

I really tried, but the whole thing is a dude‘s boring monologue to his therapist. I couldn‘t take him whining about his mom and his dick anymore. As much sex is in this book, it isn‘t sexy.

This story beautifully illustrates how gender is a social construct and a spectrum. With mushrooms.

It‘s hard to read at times, like watching a slow-moving disaster, and the fallout. It‘s well written, the characters are deeply flawed people, completely believable. 8/10 would read again.
#ReadingWomensChallenge

Tryna start my #readingwomenchallenge and also observe the Thou Shalt Not Disturb Thy Dog‘s Slumber rule 😂

For A book about a woman athlete

Where to even begin? There are a couple of books we come across that change our lives, and this is one of them. The prose is so rich and raw you will feel e v e r y t h i n g; that said, don‘t read this when you‘re cold or hungry.

Getting my list together for #readingwomenchallenge2019, here‘s how it‘s shaping up so far. I‘m probably going to start with #10, as it‘s the category I‘m least excited about.
#readingwomen
#readingwomenchallenge

Her descriptions are like secrets. She makes you feel like a coconspirator, as poor Ivan stumbles around clueless.

I am IN for this #readingwomenchallenge!

Capitalists. Definitely capitalists.

Her descriptions are silky, but full of teeth.

It‘s a delightful book, full of little blurbs to help you catch all the nuances of the paintings. I loved it.

This is one of the things I love about Jack Vance‘s writing style: he‘s super specific about things, but because he made it up, it means nothing. Or, better, it means whatever you want it to mean. In my imagination, cinniborines are low, thorny shrubs, highly sculpted like topiary or banzai trees. And colorful.

This book is a mere nine months younger than I 📚

This was a hard read, as events just kept piling onto poor Jantiff. Like a train wreck, I couldn‘t look away, which is a good thing, as it‘s a satisfying book. On to book 3!

I almost didn‘t read this when I realized it had a heavy sports theme. I would‘ve really missed out, and now I‘m on to book 2 💖

When you‘re not impressed with the opening act 😇

#readeverywhere

I‘m awake waaaay too early, but it‘s almost time to leave my Airbnb and head for home.

“It wouldn‘t take all that long” 😂😂😂😂

Fucking. Yikes. Now that‘s a terrifying thought.

This was a quick, sweet read, and I think I‘ll mail it to somebody so they can love bookstores all over again, too.