It's My Genre, Baby.

Parenting memoirs swing between kid worshipping eye crossers and bitterly frustrated justifications of career abandonment. It's pretty...

The opening chapters of Serving Victoria are a total slog. Hubbard seems unable to choose between too much background and too little. The...

As much as I enjoyed The Next Day it wasn't until I heard Where Are We Now playing in a shop in Essen that I understood how little ...

*Someone at Pocket really likes the Angelina Jolie look. I started this review and then I totally forgot what the book was about. True s...

I'm as surprised as y'all that I read book five of this series. Truly. I'm even more surprised I was given an ARC. Fifth Gra...

If you have a kid you've probably already seen this but I want to talk about it anyway. I find the American relationship with children...

I can't explain this cover. It's wrong for the era and vaguely disturbing. She looks like a vacant doll. Of course, Nora kind of i...

This was going to be the book where Heath and I break up, but she surprised me. Which is not to say I recommend the title. Heath is work...

I want you to read this book. It's going to win a basket of awards. It's the memoir of the year, for certain. I don't care who...

*Having recently taken a number of transatlantic flights, I'm pretty caught up on the selection of B tier movies that are offered to i...

Memorial Day Memories , a photo by meoskop on Flickr. I'm a few weeks behind on reviews for reasons pictured. (No, that's not my ca...

Lately I'm seeing a lot of Sudden Bondage. Nothing makes me lose my investment in a story faster than the use of childhood abuse as a ...

There is a liberating moment in the Southern Vampire Mysteries where Sookie Stackhouse realizes she doesn't have to live this way. She...

Maybe I've burnt out. Each reviewer has their own personal ARC policy. Mine is that I will review your book if I accept it, but the ...

I've been doing a lot of DNF reading lately. Sometimes I set a book aside and try again. Sometimes I soldier on, carried aloft by the ...

I'm a big fan of the curiosity comic. You know, the books that you can't quite believe came out. Sam and Max , the original and re...

I pushed Dead Ever After up the TBR list to answer one question and one question only. "Can 437 one star reviews be wrong?" The...

Please don't buy this book. I mean, you can absolutely buy this book if you so desire. Possibly you have it on preorder right now. I...

Howard and I had totally broken up. If Picasso had a blue period or Van Gogh a sunflower obsession, Howard has been exploring reconstructe...

My intention was to love The Girl With The Cat Tattoo .  Other people (people I like and generally agree with) loved it. The cover is abso...