A heartbreaking book about grief and injustice. It's about many other things, too. I liked the structure of the book and how close Ward lets the reader into her memories. Would find myself with tears in my eyes as I read about each new devastation. She's obviously a gifted writer and I look forward to reading her novels.

I'm not really a fan of cowboys, so I don't know why I keep reading about them. I think it's that I picked up one Diana Palmer book for a dime over a decade ago and enjoyed the romance genre enough but not enough to venture beyond this one author. I enjoy historical romance but I'm meh on cowboy themes. A bit too antiquated and weird masculine ideals that make me squirm more than sigh wistfully. I think I need new romance recommendations.

Not a whole lot here, felt very surface and while there were certainly scenes that popped, in the end I was just ok with it and ready to move on. Not sure I'm going to check out more Perrotta any time soon.

I had a six-hour round trip car ride to accomplish and I remembered I could borrow audiobooks via the library. I read Yoon's excelled The Sun is Also a Star earlier this year and loved it, and I also liked this one - though perhaps not as much. It's definitely very good and there were some shocks near the end and characters that you want to hug and care for.

This book is C R A Z Y.

I was always interested in what Nutting would do next after reading Tampa, and this did not disappoint. Definitely one of the most surprising and bonkers writers I've encountered, but not one whose books I'd necessarily recommend to just anyone.

Here are some keywords: invasive technology, dolphins, sex dolls, con men, a guy named Liver. It's hilarious, weird, and engaging...but read at your own risk.

At first, I thought this was a book in which you needed to like hockey in order to love it. It takes a while, but it pivots into something else and became a little more interesting. It handles the sexual assault narrative very well, but almost in a cookie-cutter way. Which is okay, but the book as a whole is written in generic platitudes and plods along with weird, corny life messages. (Sidenote: it takes pains to name quite a few characters but a couple of them are strangely not named so are only referred to in terms of their relationship to another character, even as they show up again and again and again - i.e., Kira's colleague, Kevin's mom. This made me scrunch my face a bunch.)

I think a lot of people will like this book a lot, and I don't want to hinder anyone from reading it. But I really enjoy good prose and this did not have it for me. I liked it well enough, and I think it would be a good tool for young readers in terms of empathy and... taking a closer look at the ways of life or heroes you may worship, because everyone is fallible.

Review to come <3

Was NOT expecting this when I started. I started getting chills while I read. I sometimes read before bed and I had to stop and watch something on tv so as to make sure I didn't get nightmares if I went right to sleep afterwards.

It's so creepy and hard to explain how masterfully Schweblin weaves the tension and horror into the narrative. A narrative that I may not even be completely clear with, but she gives the reader enough to imagine it in your own way, which is probably the scariest of all. It tapped into something personal to me, but I think it would be something different and experienced differently from reader to reader.

::shivers::

A brief year with our protagonist, Ruth, and I enjoyed it. It's full of day to day life, and funny observations (a couple made me chuckle out loud), and all of these relatively mundane writings mask the jolts of astute perspectives on shifting views of parents, a parent in pain (deteriorating state), relationships, families, growing up. I quite liked this small novel; I liked that it wasn't grandiose or perplex. It's quiet and insightful.