Busy month for books!

When I Kill You by B.A. Paris (not bad! One of the better ones and the rejoinder of “when I kill you” in the diary entries was camp)

The Midnight Taxi by Yosha Gunasekera (I wanted this to be better than it was but it was ok. Cute concept)

The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly (quick but oddly repetitive for how short the essays were)

Little One by Olivia Muenter (not as clever as I think the author thought)

Penitence by Kristin Koval (slow but easy to follow audiobook)

The Girls Before by Kate Alice Marshall (slow and boring)

Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase (fun! Action packed!)

The Reservation by Rebecca Kauffman (cute but why was there a cliffhanger?)

The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives by Elizabeth Arnott (fun)

Pinky Swear by Danielle Girard (bad)

The Story of Marceau Miller by Marceau Miller (fun concept and setting but eh)

You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir by Christina Applegate (sad)

All the World Can Hold by Jung Yun (also sad but interesting)

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (sad and odd)

Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises by Katie Benner, Erica L. Green (not as good as it could have been. The article was really enough.

This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum (fun concept; good twist)

The Wildling Sisters by Eve Chase (not bad but slow)

The Other Couple by Claire McGowan (fun woman detective and Tenerife setting)

Gaslit by Megan Davidhizar (uneven)

The Birthday Weekend by Lesley Sanderson (not a lot going on)

The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth (a listen/re-read while watching the new show based on it)

The Stranger Inside by Laura Benedict (another “someone is living in my house” book but with a main character who is kind of awful)

Friends and Family by Natalie Baszile (ok but I’m not sure who the audience is supposed to be)

In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir by Tom Junod (oddly both overly detailed and under detailed)

An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere by Mikita Brottman (fun because it was local but meandering and really partly a memoir of the author who lives in the Belvedere)

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West (oh, Lindy!)

Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane by Lindy West (why doesn’t she realize how much happier she was away from everyone??)

Strange Girls: A Novel by Sarvat (kind of flat)

Will This Make You Happy: Stories & Recipes from a Year of Baking by Tanya Bush with Forsyth Harmon (illustrator) (eh)

Land of Enchantment by Leigh Stein (weirdly flat, maybe written too soon?)

Once and Again by Rebecca Serle (cute idea but blah)