I am not reviewing one of the books I read in June, because it was published by St. Martin’s Press. I’ve decided to participate in the boycott.
Tag: book bingo 2024
Book Review: The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
What a great title! It evokes images of a mushroom that might outlive us, which is funny, because matsutake thrives in sites of human disturbance. If we died out tomorrow, how long would the mushroom survive?
Book Review: Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen
Because I don’t know enough about poetry to know what I like, I basically only read one poetry book a year, and that’s because Book Bingo inevitably has some poetry-related prompt.
Book Review: Heroes by Stephen Fry
You can probably surmise from the title what this book is about: the heroes of Greek mythology, those demigods and other generally supernaturally awesome people (mostly dudes…) who went around doing labors and ridding the ancient world of monsters.
Book Review: Remedial Magic by Melissa Marr
The whole world needs to know how much I despise this book.
Book Review: The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
This is some real trauma porn. It’s got Jewish trauma, gay trauma, war trauma, refugee trauma, drug abuse trauma, just trauma for days. Or decades, really, since the book spans more than 30 years and then has a 21st century epilogue.
Book Review: Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
There’s not one big thing that makes this story of a young woman who can summon ghosts a good book. It’s a lot of little things.
Book Review: Babel by R.F. Kuang
After reading Babel, my short assessment is that it’s a good book, but it’s not a great book.
Adult Summer Reading Book Bingo Has Begun!
Are you doing Book Bingo this year? Do you need ideas for any of the squares? Let me know in the comments!
Book Review: Our Kindred Creatures by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
The rise of the animal rights movement in the United States seems like an interesting topic, but the somewhat dry, detached writing style and a mid narrator for the audiobook made this a slog.