 |
| Which one should I choose? |
Which means I have big plans for the TBR pile. I just need to decide where to start.
Here are some recent options that arrived at my house:
wow, no thank you. by samantha irby
From the back cover: Samantha Irby is forty and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. This the life of a Hallmark Channel dream. She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles talking with TV executives/amateur astrologers while being a cheese fry-eating, slightly damp Midwestern person with neck pain and no cartilage in her knees who still hides past-due bills under her pillow.
The uproarious essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new bourgeois life. Wow, No Thank You. is Irby at her most hysterical, relatable, and unflinching.
[Edited: read, enjoyed, reviewed. Read about it here.]
From the back cover: One minute, Katrina King is enjoying an innocent conversation with a random guy at a coffee shop; the next, a stranger has live-tweeted the entire encounter with a romantic meet-cute spin, and #CafeBae has the world swooning. Going viral isn't easy for anyone, but Katrina has painstakingly build a private life for herself, far from her traumatic past. Besides, everyone has it all wrong . . .That #CafeBae bro? He isn't the man she's hungry for.
With the internet on the hunt for the identity of #Cute CafeGirl, Jas Singh, bodyguard and possessor of the most beautiful eyebrow s Katrina's ever seen, offers his family's farm as a refuge. Being alone with her unrequited crush feels like a recipe for hopeless longing, but Katrina craves the escape. She's resigned to being just friend with Jas--until they share a single electrifying kiss. Now she can't help but wonder if her crush may not be so unrequited after all . . .
[Edited: read, devoured, reviewed. Read about it here.]
From the inside cover: When Mouse's dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?
Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is packed to the gills with useless garbage. The would be horrors enough, bu there's more. Mouse stumbles across her step grandfather's journal, which at first seems to be the ravings of a broken mind.
Until she encounters some of the terrifying things he described herself. Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse has to confront a series of impossible terrors---because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they're looking for you. And if she doesn't face them head-on, she might not survive to tell the tale.
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
From the inside cover: Acclaimed novelist Quan Barry delivers a tour de female force in this delightful novel. Set in the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts, where the accusations began that led to the 1692 Salem witch trails, We Ride Upon Sticks follows the 1989 Danvers High
School Falcons field hockey team, who'll do anything to make it to the state finals--even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers. In chapters dense with 1980s iconography--from Heathers to big hair--Barry expertly weaves together the individual and collective progress of this enchanted team as they storm their way through an unforgettable season.
Helmed by good-girl captain Abby Putnam (a descendant of the infamous Salem accuser Ann Putnam) and her co-captain Jen Fiorenza (whose bleached blond "Claw" sees and knows all) the Falcons prove to be wily, original, and bold, flaunting society's stale notions of femininity in order to find their glorious true selves through the crucible of team sport and, more important, friendship.
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
From the inside cover: Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they're as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families.
One evening after book club, Patricia is viciously attacked by an elderly neighbor, bringing the neighbor's handsome nephew, James Harris, into her life. James is well traveled and well read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn't felt in years. But when children on the other side of the town go missing, their deaths written off by local police, Patricia has reason to believe Jame Harris is more of a Bundy than a Brad Pitt. The real problem? James is a monster of a different kind--and Patricia has already invited him in.
Little by little, James will insinuate himself into Patricia's life and try to take everything she took for granted--including the book club--but she won't surrender without a fight in this blood-soaked take of neighborly kindness gone wrong.
Where would you start? I think The Twisted Ones needs to be read in the full light of day--preferably outside and HOURS before bedtime--so I'll like start with Girl Gone Viral and then jump to wow, no thank you.
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
School Falcons field hockey team, who'll do anything to make it to the state finals--even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers. In chapters dense with 1980s iconography--from Heathers to big hair--Barry expertly weaves together the individual and collective progress of this enchanted team as they storm their way through an unforgettable season.
Helmed by good-girl captain Abby Putnam (a descendant of the infamous Salem accuser Ann Putnam) and her co-captain Jen Fiorenza (whose bleached blond "Claw" sees and knows all) the Falcons prove to be wily, original, and bold, flaunting society's stale notions of femininity in order to find their glorious true selves through the crucible of team sport and, more important, friendship.
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
One evening after book club, Patricia is viciously attacked by an elderly neighbor, bringing the neighbor's handsome nephew, James Harris, into her life. James is well traveled and well read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn't felt in years. But when children on the other side of the town go missing, their deaths written off by local police, Patricia has reason to believe Jame Harris is more of a Bundy than a Brad Pitt. The real problem? James is a monster of a different kind--and Patricia has already invited him in.
Little by little, James will insinuate himself into Patricia's life and try to take everything she took for granted--including the book club--but she won't surrender without a fight in this blood-soaked take of neighborly kindness gone wrong.
Where would you start? I think The Twisted Ones needs to be read in the full light of day--preferably outside and HOURS before bedtime--so I'll like start with Girl Gone Viral and then jump to wow, no thank you.
No comments:
Post a Comment