ashleyholstrom's Reviews (1.38k)

First of all: Best cover (and title) ever, amirite? Jolie Kerr writes and podcasts about being a clean person, and after reading her book, you better believe I’m her newest fangirl. She covers each room/area of the house and what sort of daily clean vs. hard clean each zone needs. And also has funny anecdotes! And real-life letters from real-life people asking real-life questions about how to clean disasters like homemade beer exploding and people barfing on popcorn ceilings. Language levels are high and subject matters are a wee bit explicit, so, HELLO, perfect book. Because if you don’t curse while you scrub your grout, I don’t want to be friends with you.

From Genre Kryptonite: Books about Nesting at Book Riot.

Oh my.

Y’all, this book had me laughing the ugliest laughs I didn’t know my body could produce. Classic Irby humor about gross body stuff and annoying life things. I listened to it over the first week of mandated working from home, and it was the perfect antidote.

⚡️From the April 2020 edition of Crooked Reads, my monthly(ish) newsletter.

Local cats give news reports on things happening in their daily lives. The man cut his tail off! The cats upstairs are having a party with at least 100 elephants! etc. It’s a pure delight.

⚡️From the April 2020 edition of Crooked Reads, my monthly(ish) newsletter.

Reading this felt like watching a Tom Hanks rom-com, and it was exactly what I needed to read. It's so cute and fun and, yanno, rom-com-y. Loved it.

⚡️From the August 2019 edition of Crooked Reads, my monthly(ish) newsletter.

Whew. What a wild ride.

I was addicted to this story and found any excuse to continue listening to the audiobook. Rachel became friends with Anna, a socialite who was super good at scamming her friends for thousands of dollars. This book is Rachel’s tale of the downward spiral of their friendship and the months it took for her to get a scammed $62,000 back.

⚡️From the September 2019 edition of Crooked Reads, my monthly(ish) newsletter about books.