HMM this was pretty good? It's really not my favorite genre. Neither was Ship Breaker but I figured I'd lose street cred if I didn't win it after it won the Printz. But, Tool was the most intriguing character from Ship Breaker so I picked this up because it promised more Tool. (That's what she said?) Anyway IDK, it was pretty grim but I think I found it more compelling than Ship Breaker. Go Tool!

OH BOY I CONNECTED WITH THIS BOOK SO HARD. OH JEEZE. SO MUCH CRYING, BARBARA KINGSOLVER.

Wowww. Eula Biss know what the fuck she is doing with words.

Nothing especially groundbreaking, especially if you've read anything else by Michael Pollan, but still good. Very clear ways of thinking about food, things that seem obvious but aren't anymore because of the way we Americans tend to get our food these days.

Basically everyone else in the class we read this for hated it. But I thought it was fucking fascinating and I have been inundating the people in my life with facts I learned from this. FACT: rats enjoy being tickled. FACT: it is really hard to remove all of the rats from islands. FACT: rats will straight up eat endangered species. OH NO, what to doooo

Super cute! I vaguely remember reading this as a webcomic awhile ago? But it ends on kind of a cliffhanger and now I must seek out Jellaby #2!

I mean, I guess I enjoyed this more than I enjoyed [b:Fruits Basket, Vol. 1|271199|Fruits Basket, Vol. 1 (Fruits Basket, #1)|Natsuki Takaya|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173305867s/271199.jpg|542633]? But basically maybe manga is not for me. (I really only read this because I had to read two different manga for my comics class.) It just feels basically nonsensical, with little attention to world building--just an assumption that you, the reader, have already bought into this. Which I haven't.

Cute cat art, though.

Minus one star because it just made me sad that I'm not and likely never will be BFFs with Mindy Kaling.

She's not pretentious about what kind of book this is and neither am I: it's light, hilarious reading, though there are some intriguing insights about female friendships and being a ~woman in Hollywood~, e.g. when she was named one of People's Most Beautiful People but when she went to the photoshoot for it they only had dresses in size 0. She cried and then got the stylist to cut open the dress she liked and sew some canvas in the back of it. Work it, girl.

Anyway, whatever, love her.

I FINALLY FINISHED IT. I had to use all of my library renewals. Whew. IDK, this book was OK? It's like a bunch of people trying to be all Tori Amos-style dreamy-introspective, but none of them are as good at it as Tori Amos and it all felt very heavy-handed. Also the book is literally very heavy.

I doubt anyone besides a die-hard Tori fan would even want to pick this up. But if they did, I don't think they would make it through to the end.

SIGH.

As always, a solid collection.