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With Teeth by Kristen Arnett
challenging
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
4.0
Woah - I’d say stick with it. It’s worth it. At times I was annoyed by all the narrative exposition. The inner life of the main character was interesting, but not soooo much that I needed that level Of detail. But it pays off in the end.
I’d recommend “Mostly Dead Things” as a good first read by this author. Her books were recommended to me on a list of “Weird” books - with other titles like Big Swiss, Night Bitch. If you liked those, you may like this one.
I’d recommend “Mostly Dead Things” as a good first read by this author. Her books were recommended to me on a list of “Weird” books - with other titles like Big Swiss, Night Bitch. If you liked those, you may like this one.
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
UGH UGH UGH the last cheesy, self-indulgent paragraph. WHY? It cheapened the whole premise for me.
3.75
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
4.5
A story about people and relationships in the setting of video games from the 80’s through the early 2000’s.
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben
3.5
Learned a lot and enjoyed listening to it. I wish I had known most of the research and references would be to European forests and species before I picked it up.
Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire by Neil Gaiman
3.5
I almost quit this one a few pages in. I was confused about the story and the narrator then at the halfway point it all clicked. What a clever story-telling vehicle about the horror genre and the art of writing.
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
3.0
Dry dry dry British humor and reserved emotion.