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Monthly Archives: July 2017

Funny Girl: A Novel by Nick Hornby
fiction / historical fiction / literary fiction

Funny Girl: A Novel by Nick Hornby

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Rachel • Leave a comment

  I have read all of Nick Hornby’s books even the music essay ones and somehow it took me until now to read Funny Girl. I guess my library hiatus had more casualties than I thought. I enjoyed the beginning of the book. Barbara from Blackpool goes from being Miss Blackpool for an hour to … Continue reading →

The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson
fiction / mystery

The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Rachel • Leave a comment

    Computer problems plagued me again this week. We’ve had awful internet issues since we moved in this house in 2005 and since we live in Baltimore City we have little choice as to service providers. We finally bought a new desktop for me to work on (our old one was so noisy and … Continue reading →

Dare Me by Megan Abbott
fiction / mystery

Dare Me by Megan Abbott

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Rachel • Leave a comment

I think I am getting old because I spent the whole book thinking “where are your parents?”. I’ve read a couple Megan Abbott books and they are generally pretty good. YA but long, well written and a little dark. Dare Me is the story of two best friends, their cheerleading squad and the new, troubled … Continue reading →

Selfish, shallow, and self-absorbed : sixteen writers on the decision not to have kids edited by Meghan Daum
essays / nonfiction

Selfish, shallow, and self-absorbed : sixteen writers on the decision not to have kids edited by Meghan Daum

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Rachel • 1 Comment

Some of the essays in Selfish were really good. Geoff Dryer’s essay was hilarious. Others were sort of sad. Lots of divorces and bad childhoods.  I can’t say I related to a lot of them but it was interesting to read the reasons people had for making the same decision I made not to have … Continue reading →

The Perfect Neighbors: A Novel   by Sarah Pekkanen
fiction / mystery

The Perfect Neighbors: A Novel by Sarah Pekkanen

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Rachel • Leave a comment

After reading an exhaustive history of Southern food and some pretty serious memoirs about mental illness I thought I’d go for something lighter. Oddly, The Perfect Neighbors took longer to read than all of those previous books. I have no idea why! The writing was pretty simple and the plot wasn’t terribly complex. I didn’t love the … Continue reading →

Salem Mean Girls by Sylvia Prince
fiction / historical fiction

Salem Mean Girls by Sylvia Prince

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Rachel • Leave a comment

I don’t read a lot of YA books but I do love a teen drama and was a history major so Salem Mean Girls was right up my alley. Basically, a remake of the movie Mean Girls (with a dash of Heathers and Pretty Little Liars thrown in) it reimagines the story of Cady (in … Continue reading →

The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South by John T. Edge
food / history / nonfiction

The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South by John T. Edge

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Rachel • 4 Comments

The Potlikker Papers one of, if not the, best food history books I’ve ever read. It goes from the segregated South to the Black Panthers (did you know Bobby Seale* has a cookbook?) to Nation of Islam to hippies relocating from cities to the deep South to start communes to Paul Prudhomme to Southern Living to … Continue reading →

Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom by Sara Benincasa
essays / memoir / nonfiction

Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom by Sara Benincasa

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Rachel • 1 Comment

I had mixed feelings about Agorafabulous!. On one hand, it was fascinating to read about agoraphobia, on the other I felt like she was trying too hard to be funny at times and occasionally was slightly offensive. For example, she’d refer to people’s race, sexuality or ethnicity all the time even when it didn’t matter. It … Continue reading →

Accidents Happen: A Novel by Louise Millar
fiction / mystery

Accidents Happen: A Novel by Louise Millar

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Rachel • Leave a comment

I requested two Louise Millar books from the library and they came in on the same day so I ended up reading them back to back. I enjoyed The Hidden Girl so I was looking forward to Accidents Happen. I was disappointed. It is basically the story of a woman who is super anxious because of … Continue reading →

The Hidden Girl: A Novel by Louise Millar
fiction / mystery

The Hidden Girl: A Novel by Louise Millar

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Rachel • 1 Comment

The Hidden Girl was a creepy mystery. A quirky and slightly mismatched couple moves from London to a big house in rural England for a fresh start. They’d like to adopt and eventually set up a music studio in an outbuilding for the husband. When they arrive the house needs much more work than they … Continue reading →

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