I more or less just quietly cried throughout this whole book. It was beautiful, and I was happy there were no AI characters.

Like a Regency story but modern day, Crazy Rich Asians takes you on a journey with the fabulously wealthy as they shop and spend and gossip, shop and spend and gossip. It's funny and over-the-top; a great beach read.

Very disappointing for Christie. The short stories were not mysteries but instead weird and often supernatural tales that were unsatisfying and poorly written.

I utterly adored this novel up to 61%, and simply loved it from that point on. Lockwood starts with this beautiful blend of tears-in-your-eyes-laughter, self-awareness, and the utter insanity of her religious upbringing that is both poignant and hysterical. But at 61% the tone changes to something more poetic and altogether more sad. I wish that the thread twining together levity and seriousness had stayed a little more consistent throughout. It picks back up after a while, but it's hard won.

Overall this book was beautifully written, raw, and a fascinating insight into what it's like to grow up the daughter of a Catholic priest.

I have long felt that organized religion is toxic, but found it hard to articulate what it was exactly I hated so much. Luckily, Dawkins says it all for me: it's the rigid denial of scientific fact, the indoctrination and terrorization of children, it's the smug righteousness, and more than anything, it's the fact that our modern society still insists faith is so important that it cannot be questioned, even when action otherwise flies in the face of our laws and basic human beliefs. This is a fascinating read full of science and logic and thought and feels like an appeal to that most human part of all of us. (And no, the most human part of us has nothing to do with religion.)

This book does such a good job capturing what it feels like to be a kid.

I can't tell if the way they talk is designed to be humorous, or if this was meant to be instructional. Overlooking that it was mildly entertaining.