Nathan Hill writes about love and parenthood, and more importantly trying to navigate those topics in awful modernity, with so much compassion and humor. As a father of a boy about to be two years old, the sequence in which Elizabeth is struggling to get her two year old son to eat, following her to the grocery store for her "unraveling," evoked an internal horror the likes at which Stephen King would blush. The nonlinear approach pays off very well by the end, as well, giving you glimpses into Jack and Elizabeth's lives at different points and from different perspectives makes the conclusion satisfying and meaningful.

Reviewed on Monday, January 15th, 2024, 8:29am.

I saw R. F. Kuang quoted she wanted Yellowface to feel like an anxiety attack, and I can't think of a book better accomplishing its author's goals than this one, in that case. From the very beginning of the novel, you're cringing your way through it, and the quick pace of it only ratchets up the anxiety throughout. It brings to mind a lot of really interesting questions to think about when it comes to authorship and who is allowed to tell what stories, and, for me, was one of the more scathing satires on the publishing industry I've read. It really brings a sense of doom to the concept of being a public figure in any realm, but the publishing-specific stuff is particularly nightmarish.

Reviewed on Monday, January 15th, 2024, 8:29am.

What a wonderful representation of the complexities of love and friendship. This book really caught me off guard in that regard; I was pretty hooked from the beginning due to the readability of it and my own interest in the creative process of video games (I especially enjoyed the many references), but the aspects of human connection are what will stick with me. Not only does Zevin do a great job of showing the ways our childhoods influence our lives (through both trauma and our escapes from those traumas), but the novel is stunning in using its own influences in the gaming world to shape its form in places. I found the 'Pioneers' section, in particular, to be very special and a beautiful culmination of bringing content and form together. I was left misty-eyed by the end of it.

Reviewed on Sunday, November 26th, 2023, 12:15pm.

I really enjoyed the frame of this novel being that the end of the world was an inevitability and that what we are left with is seeing how people will deal with it, but ultimately it felt a little too narrowly-focused to be super effective for me. I think maybe showing a little bit more of the outside world, perhaps through the lens of David, rather than being so confined to Lyd and Mott's lives, we might feel the overall danger imposed on the two throughout. Instead, there are often long stretches of not much going on other than internal and personal conflict between mother and daughter. I will say, the book really sticks the landing and ties up how important being so narrow throughout was, because we can see a very personal experience with this whole thing in a way that we wouldn't had it been too broad.

Reviewed on Monday, October 23rd, 2023, 10:44am.

One of the things that continues to draw me to literary fiction is when an author can draw me into an unfamiliar setting and elicit empathy; I feel this is one of the ways we can best grow and understand those around us, and become fuller people in service of the world. In Shuggie and Agnes Bain, Douglas Stuart has dazzlingly accomplished this. This is such an up-close and personal, and most importantly, honest look at how love can hurt us, our hearts reaching out with everything they have to help those dear to us, sometimes coming up short despite our best efforts. The way he writes about addiction in this community is so honest and vivid that I can almost feel the frigid Glasgow wind beating against my pea coat, walking alongside Shuggie and Leek in the abandoned colliery or seeing the city lights reflected in Agnes' wet eyes. A truly stunning novel that I will never forget.

Reviewed on Sunday, January 21st, 2024, 5:21pm.

A nice campy gothic horror story. I would have honestly liked to have seen a little bit more Mexican culture in the novel, as it essentially takes place in an English home, completely secluded from the rest of the town, so it never really feels like that Mexican identity is present, even though the narrator is of that culture. I think Moreno-Garcia could have done a better job there and, to me, it would have been an altogether more interesting setting.

Reviewed on Sunday, August 14th, 2022, 12:00am.

I definitely lost a lot of steam midway through reading this. I was very engaged with the "mystery" side of the novel, particularly how it interacted with the Chippewa mythology and connection to nature and animals, but it kind of feels like that plotline was dropped almost entirely. What you are left with is still a very interesting perspective on the life and politics of the tribe and reservation, how much poverty and struggle they dealt with, and how much they had to fight just for a tiny scrap that they didn't really want to begin with, but as it's all they had, it was dear to them.

Reviewed on Monday, October 23rd, 2023, 10:40am.

This book had an uphill climb to winning my affection by using the phrase "big lol" within the first ten pages, and the multiple well-placed Frank Ocean references sent it tumbling back down at intervals, but it's hard to begrudge a book that you can breeze through in a weekend too much. The concept is cool, and the execution is concise, if predictable, and of course, it has a nice message. I guess I ultimately found it to be kind of merely scratching the surface of the concept, but nothing about it is what I'd call bad.

Reviewed on Sunday, November 19th, 2023, 6:32am.

As the series marches into its climax, I am struck most by how, for a story as vast and epic as The Expanse has become, its greatest accomplishment continues to be the development of its characters. There were moments here where I couldn't help but pump my fist as I read a long-known and -loved character showing their culmination of strength and courage. We are essentially in Star Wars levels of scale at this point, which feels so far from where it started, but by tying the reader to the characters and having them grow so much, it almost feels natural. I am very excited to see how the authors end this thing. I have a feeling we're about to get real weird.

Reviewed on Wednesday, December 6th, 2023, 10:20am.

This was definitely a breeze of a novel. I enjoyed the concept of a kind of classic literary concept of a grand house being central to the story, while being somewhat modern. It was cool to see the brother and sister grow through time but everything being tied to their past, and seeing how they grow out of it and move on (or don't). I really grew to love the characters, and Patchett's style is very nice to read. A lot of subtle humor.

Reviewed on Monday, October 23rd, 2023, 10:46am.

I thought it would be a little bit deeper, but ultimately it defintiely feels like a mid-level HBO series in the making, or a Netflix movie or something. I did really enjoy the descriptions of the marshland; you could tell that the author is intimately familiar and brought me right into this unique place.

Reviewed on Saturday, August 27th, 2022, 12:00am.

If the stakes were high in Nemesis Games, they are to the moon (no pun intended) in Persepolis Rising. It's really starting to feel like a massive culmination of all the stories, and though it was shocking at first, it was a great move to jump forward in time. I can't imagine where we go from here.

Reviewed on Monday, October 17th, 2022, 12:00am.

As expected, the ‘reset’ brought some big stakes back into the picture and Vaughan decided to really hammer the reader at the end with a massive blow-off and tragic end. I was actually not expecting just about anything that happened here, and getting a chance to explore Phang was cool, as well as the little creatures who joined us for the collection.

Reviewed on Wednesday, January 18th, 2023, 9:43pm.

David Grann accomplishes no small feat here in bringing history to life in a way that it unfolds like a fictional mystery. I appreciated his storytelling abilities here which both paid tremendous respect to a disturbing bit of American history and kept me enthralled to see how things would unfold. I certainly had never heard anything about this story, these people, and their hardships, which is ultimately the whole point: the country had created such a culture that they could be put through immense tragedies so easily and unencumbered -- often facilitated. I appreciate Grann shining a light on their stories.

Reviewed on Saturday, December 2nd, 2023, 1:14pm.

This one felt like a bit of a restart or a clear beginning of a major chapter within the overall story, and so maybe felt a little exposition-heavy in trying to set the table back up. I didn't get a firm grasp on the refugee angle they were going for, and didn't necessarily feel the drama or danger there, but it all had a really nice payoff. Some new characters were introduced, some old ones returned, and I think we're off to the races for a really interesting part of the story. I almost wonder if it'd be better to simply review the Saga comic as a whole once I'm done, because it can feel a little unfair and almost like I'm logging and reviewing the chapter of a book.

Reviewed on Monday, January 16th, 2023, 9:26am.

This story is, of course, terrifying, heartbreaking, and incensing, but the thing that Kate Moore accomplishes the best by the end of it is drawing out how inspiring these ladies were. I cannot imagine going through what they did, let alone going through it with faith intact, regularly finding things to relish in a life that, from such a young age, brought them such unspeakable, unfair, hardships. Moore writes these women with such care, highlighting the things they find bright in their dark lives, that it wasn't even so much the horrific descriptions of their physical traumas that most got to me (though those were tough to read, over and over and over), but it was the descriptions of the way their emotional heartbreaks were rendered in some of the hardest moments -- thoughts of not seeing their children run through the house playing anymore bringing them to heaving sobs in a courtroom, having to express fears their husbands would leave them due to their death sentences -- that most humanized their stories.

Reviewed on Friday, January 19th, 2024, 8:26am.

A tiny step back from the heart-stopping drama of Nemesis Games, but a great continuation of the action here. It's nice to get Marco and Naomi's relationship, and in turn, Filip, fleshed out a bit more, and to see how the authors paint the picture of the political and human aftermath of the rocks hitting Earth. The end feels slightly like a cop-out, but they do a good job of building up the "erasing" of the Free Navy throughout to where it doesn't feel out-of-nowhere.

Reviewed on Sunday, August 7th, 2022, 12:00am.

Another great continuation of the story. I didn’t quite expect to fly through it like this but it’s exactly what I was hoping for to kickstart my reading again. The story is building nicely to a big emotional payoff, and there are nice, smaller emotional payoffs throughout so far. Vaughan, and through the excellent art of Fiona Staples, has created such a rich collection of colorful (literally) characters, and they’ve gotten me to care about them all in one way or another: whether it’s affection or hate, sometimes both in one.

Reviewed on Sunday, January 15th, 2023, 3:03pm.

As memorable and entertaining of a reading experience as I've had in years. Shocking, funny, absurd, but also very thoughtful and hard-hitting as satire. I think it's a rare turn to be able to not completely lose the message inside such an outlandish scenario, but the novel is very focused despite being seemingly all over the place. The Sellout brings up questions of ownership, not only of property but also of culture and lifestyle in a "post-racist" America that offered a new perspective to me personally by bringing into focus the fact that no longer talking about something doesn't make it no longer exist, and in fact, can tend to make it even worse.

Reviewed on Wednesday, October 25th, 2023, 7:40am.

It was a big risk to split the crew of the Rocinante as the authors did in this novel, but it paid off in huge ways. Each of the four "branches" of the story is deeply compelling and action-packed, and the stakes feel absolutely massive in this installation. Amos' section in particular might have been my favorite as it was so close to the devastating catastrophe brought on by the Free Navy, but Naomi's zero-suit space jump probably takes the cake as the peak of the novel.

Reviewed on Wednesday, June 1st, 2022, 12:00am.

I finished this book basically in one sitting, which is somewhat rare. It was well-written and a unique perspective on gender that I am admmittedly pretty unfamiliar. I think I learned a little bit here.

Reviewed on Sunday, June 19th, 2022, 12:00am.

I can definitely feel this comic shifting into a real classic like all of the critical reception and accolades would suggest. I had been in a real reading funk for the last few months and this thing has really set me back on course. Just the fact that all in basically one day I’ve now read three full volumes, about 20 issues, says a lot. Super easy to breeze through and get invested in characters from all sides of the conflict, the art is fantastic, and the story is very engaging. One aspect that I really love is whenever Hazel cuts in and they use that really striking handwritten font. It adds a lot of weight to whatever she’s decided to interject on. Onward and upward!

Reviewed on Saturday, January 14th, 2023, 7:11pm.

I really enjoyed getting to know a little bit more about the Robot Kingdom and how they introduced this political unrest element in the form of Dengo and his actions. The entire volume set itself up nicely by giving it the ‘splitting up’ point to reach, and it achieved this very well and in a way that I can’t stop reading to see the reunion.

Reviewed on Sunday, January 15th, 2023, 5:48am.

This was an interesting work that blends the worlds of fact and fiction pretty masterfully; the layers of the story stack atop one another and reach an almost frenzied climax, where I, and I think the narrator, cannot distinguish between those worlds. I found it very thought-provoking in that sense. Keeping with the frequent theme of an action ceasing to exist when its intent turns out to be misguided - the example that comes to mind is the author brushing Alex's hair back and giving their night together huge amounts of meaning due to an impending superstorm, yet when the storm falls flat, that night together might well have never happened for its lack of guiding tension - the Author's intent seemingly changes throughout, leaving the reader to wonder if what they are reading is the novel they had thought it to be. It's also very funny, and the neurosis of the narrator being portrayed in such humorous ways really helps when some of the more obtuse material springs forth.

Reviewed on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024, 2:54pm.

Since this is the de facto beginning of the second trilogy within the Expanse series, a lot of work is needed to be done in order to establish the next direction, and the book does succeed in that. However, it just feels entirely too removed from everything that had happened before, and even though it ties in the Protomolecule with how Ilus operates, it's a bit confusing to see the full picture right now. Of course, by the end of it, it's a bonafide page-turner.

Reviewed on Thursday, February 3rd, 2022, 12:00am.

Really starting to enjoy the Invisibles comics as I kind of get my bearings on what Morrison is trying to say and accomplish with these stories. The action is insane and by now I'm pretty hooked on the messed-up world he's building.

Reviewed on Sunday, February 13th, 2022, 12:00am.

I found this to be quite the marvel. There is so much care and attention to every word, and it was really inspiring to me to read this simply for the craft behind it. I think the book reflects what the narrator has to say about the titular painting, "It’s there in the light-rinsed atmosphere, the brush strokes he permits us to see, up close, for exactly what they are—hand worked flashes of pigment, the very passage of the bristles visible—and then, at a distance, the miracle, or the joke," the seeming pains taken with every word, like a visible bristle of Fabritius' brush, all to serve, in her case, a sprawling coming-of-age story with a bit of crime to color the character-driven narrative. I was certainly hooked by the plot throughout, but ultimately, it was those brushstrokes, her choice of words, and careful construction of prose that I will take with me.

Reviewed on Saturday, January 6th, 2024, 6:14am.

Enjoying how things are paced in this series so far, where each issue is a major page-turner while still being somewhat of a slow boil so far. Great backstory on Marko and his family/race while introducing some new characters and really setting all the major players on their trajectories towards one another. I really enjoy how any given page could have a wild new creature/character and just how inventive the whole thing is.

Reviewed on Saturday, January 14th, 2023, 2:38pm.

Great start to the series and I am pretty thoroughly hooked. Each issue felt like it ended way too soon, which feels like a great sign. I really enjoy the wild character designs and concepts; it already feels like absolutely nothing is off-limits. If I had a gripe it’s that so far the dialog feels a little clunky, but it’s a pretty minor gripe given the genre, and will likely just require some adjusting.

Reviewed on Saturday, January 14th, 2023, 8:17am.

About halfway through this, I was convinced that Franzen had once again hit me with a perfect 10 of a book, but for some reason, the characters took a turn for me where I could no longer relate to their experiences in any way. I think the first section, where you're reading Patty's "memoir," is super effective because you can truly get a sense of her interior life and those around her, from her perspective, in a very real way. She and those around her are relatable because of their flaws and how you can see her grapple with them, but once we go to a higher perspective of Walter, Joey, and Richard, you're kind of just watching these very flawed people make their terrible decisions without much regard for self-reflection on them. It's still fantastic, and his style and humor propel the novel as blistering paces.

Reviewed on Monday, October 23rd, 2023, 10:52am.

I really did not enjoy this book. The narrator was deeply unlikeable and I really didn't care what direction her life was going or if she would actually write a play.

Reviewed on Saturday, June 18th, 2022, 12:00am.

Woof. Really tough, but rewarding, to read this. Ultimately I am very glad to have done it, as it paints a much fuller picture than, I guess what you could call the caricaturization of the Donner Party, where you can really see the humanity, heroism, and toughness of those involved. The book itself is engrossing and well-written, doing a great job of delicately walking the reader through the events in the Sierra Nevada, but also the chapters leading up to the party being snowbound paint a detailed picture of generally how brutal life on the frontier was, and how closely we modern Americans should be holding our loved ones, automobiles, and wireless routers.

Reviewed on Sunday, October 29th, 2023, 9:00am.

This would probably not normally be my thing, but the prose and dialog are so rich and alive that I have probably never felt more transported to the setting of a piece of historical fiction. I'm not the biggest history buff, so I think being kind of a blank slate on most of these people and circumstances helped matters, but you can tell it's so well-researched and planned that it could be all true, down to every royal word behind closed doors. The writing is dense and challenging, so ultimately very rewarding of the attention required to keep up with the mind of Cromwell, where each paragraph comes at you, almost like a riddle to be solved.

Reviewed on Sunday, November 19th, 2023, 6:30am.

Can't think of a more aptly-named book! I'm not sure if this was a stylistic choice, but the way that the middle bulk of the book, once the Dust Bowl starts, continues to batter you with despair and just the worst things you could possibly imagine, begin to kind of mirror what these people were going through. Egan is as unrelenting in telling this story as the dust was itself. I definitely learned a lot, and it was a really interesting read to see how everything came to be. Rather than finding much human triumph in this story, it really just paints a picture of people reaping what they sow, and some managing to either hold on long enough to stay there and not really see things improved markedly, or get outta dodge, often into a situation you could only call better because there were no literal tons of dirt pouring through their walls.

Reviewed on Sunday, November 26th, 2023, 12:14pm.

This is a very beautiful and moving story that feels really relatable. Reading it and seeing how she recounts some of the ways she and her husband chronicled their child growing up was inspiring to me as Leo was in the near horizon. I ended up taking some ideas and expanding on them, making an email address for Leo to check in with him periodically and let him know how he's growing and what he's saying/doing so he can see it when he gets older. This book had some beautiful, simple passages around this topic.

Reviewed on Monday, February 7th, 2022, 12:00am.

A very strange story and atmosphere, but as I've found with other Ishiguro novels, the way he simply and meticulously lays everything out is incredibly engaging.

Reviewed on Thursday, September 29th, 2022, 12:00am.

Reading this, I found myself quite aware of how out-of-practice I am when it comes to quality reading and comprehending. Banville often left me in his dust with the need to backtrack and make sense of what he was saying, and it made me wish I had put this off a little bit as I steadily exercise the ol' brain back up to game shape. My reading has slowed down over the years, especially from the years of reading for study, and I felt kind of exposed here. Having said that, the book is wonderfully written, constantly poetic, frequently funny, even more frequently sad, and most of all impressive in capturing the way our memories bounce from topic to topic, how things can solidify in our memories, how "Memory dislikes motion, preferring to hold things still" like a preserved "tableau". Those well-articulated descriptions of the narrator's memory resonated with me.

Reviewed on Thursday, November 30th, 2023, 9:50am.

Even if you remove the historical context of this novel, the fact that Némirovsky wrote this from exile, as the war was happening, and is still such a pragmatic and human view of the events, it's a remarkable accomplishment. I think it's important if only to understand that everyone has their own point of view, and in the case of war, are driven often by not even their own points of view but those of the ruling class from within the borders that they happened to be born, so to see some of the humanity taking place was very powerful. I really liked the first half, though I do wish we had slightly more characters of the Michaud variety, the working class, "regular" people versus the upper class, but the second half is quite masterful. So much complexity and tenderness covering a really tough subject.

Reviewed on Monday, October 23rd, 2023, 10:55am.

I was a little bit worried that things had gotten just a tad bit too...expansive...to wrap up tidily enough to feel satisfied, but I really enjoyed how things culminated here and the overarching threats of the series finally presented themselves. For a series about limitless space and connection between humanity across that space, turning that connection into something sinister was a great touch, I felt. I was also surprised that by the end of a nine-book series across galaxies, I was both extremely satisfied and eager for more. Again, the natural manifestations of human connection shone brightest here, and saying goodbye to these characters hurt. A real achievement in this genre, and I'm excited to see what the authors try next as Corey.

Reviewed on Monday, December 18th, 2023, 11:09am.

Honestly kind of a slog to get through. It was surprisingly humorous, especially just seeing how this utter alien child is interacting with the world around him, but somehow it never quite grabbed me.

Reviewed on Saturday, July 23rd, 2022, 12:00am.

A nice continuation of where the story is going. I'm a little bit removed from when I actually read this, so I don't quite remember exactly what happened.

Reviewed on Sunday, May 15th, 2022, 12:00am.

I found this to be one of the more remarkable examples of building characters, describing their interior lives, and letting the reader live alongside them and their decisions, all in incredibly realistic and moving ways. Your heart breaks for (some of) these Mulvaneys, and those vivid renderings of their thoughts, as these events unfold, elicit even deeper empathy throughout. It's one of those works where, though I cannot personally imagine making some of the choices this family does, being guided through the story on their thoughts and subtle actions makes them seem all but destined to happen. "It's the way families are, sometimes. A thing goes wrong and no one knows how to fix it and years pass and--no one knows how to fix it."

Reviewed on Saturday, November 4th, 2023, 6:08am.

Lots of "don't meet your heroes" material here, but many of the cast of characters are very humanized through this account. It's commendable that McNeil and McCain were able to weave a somewhat coherent narrative out of all of these disparate interviews, though there were naturally a few moments throughout that had jolting changes of subject. Considering the subject matter, that's okay. The interviews piece together a history of early punk in America, really told more from the lens of building the scene and culture, the people in the orbit, rather than the music itself. I think this is effective in that the listening is done as you go and after the fact, and now having many human moments to tie the music to can make these figures more sympathetic. Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan, in particular, come off as very tragic figures. It's often shocking, often funny, probably most often sad. I thought the funniest parts were the blatant contradictions from one interview to the next, like even with the titular t-shirt Richard Hell made with "please kill me" written on it. Multiple people attributing him to wearing it, even coloring their perceptions of his look and personality on that fact, and in the next paragraph, he's just like, "Oh yeah I never wore that are you insane? Someone might have killed me!"

Reviewed on Thursday, December 28th, 2023, 5:39am.

This book was not what I was expecting, reading more like a novel than a historical document, which made it quite easy to get through, like a breeze through the Spanish moss. It was a nice touch by Berendt to tell the story of Jim Williams' murder of Danny Hansford through the lens of all the characters he came across during his time in Savannah, painting a fuller picture of the social and political climate (which are, unsurprisingly, inextricably linked) rather than simply telling a true crime murder story. This, for me, made it more of an entertaining read rather than an informative one.

Reviewed on Monday, January 8th, 2024, 2:12pm.

What a trip. Proulx displays such a profound mastery of place here, and I'm not sure this was her intention, that the descriptions of Newfoundland are so vivid and realized that I cannot imagine a place I would rather be any less than there. The cast of characters are rich with personality and the setting is so heavy that it pervades every inch of the novel once Quoyle gets there. I'm not sure if this is typically her writing style, as this is my first time reading her work, but her style itself was very unique as well, with the bursts of descriptive clauses to paint her pictures.

Reviewed on Monday, October 23rd, 2023, 10:48am.

This was nothing like what I was expecting. Irving delivers, as always, in the department of providing something touching and poignant while also being really entertaining, and dare I say, fun, but the heaviness of this story is what I will remember most. Particularly dealing with the topic of abortion and women's rights, Irving really paints such a vivid picture of how this conversation seems to never want to change.

Reviewed on Monday, October 23rd, 2023, 10:38am.

There was some good humor throughout this novel as you get deeper into the head of Nick Corey. It's a world where he's somehow the dumbest person you've ever met but also the smartest person in the book you're reading, which is pretty entertaining.

Reviewed on Sunday, January 9th, 2022, 12:00am.

As part of the ongoing project of bringing into focus the fuzzy recollections of classic books, I, at best, Cliff's Notes'd, at worst, completely ignored, that were studied in school, this one was particularly rewarding. You obviously have a general idea of what Fahrenheit 451 is about, and the eerie similarities to today's technology dependence and media consumption methods are definitely eye-popping, but what I found most interesting was how succinctly Bradbury tells us where we are going (or in our modern-day readings, where we already are). It's a high concept written by an entertainer himself, which makes the whole thing very exciting and fast-paced. Each major plot hinge comes quickly, one after the other. I really enjoyed it, and in keeping with the spirit of the book, I only mindlessly picked up my phone ten or fifteen times throughout.

Reviewed on Monday, November 20th, 2023, 7:35am.

Disclaimer: I took a massive break in the middle of this, that I can't entirely blame on my enjoyment. I also do believe that my enjoyment was a factor, but unclear how much. Everything that I expected to experience when reading Dracula years ago, only to be blown away and surprised by how engrossing that novel was, happened here. I sadly found this book to be really unsatisfying even though much of it was surprising given how different it is from all the film depictions out there. The monster in particular was wild, and I wish his story was expounded upon so much more. This dude was eloquently defending his nature and then would leap two stories and scale a mountain in seconds like a goat. Absolutely incredible. Unfortunately, we are mostly stuck with Dr. Frankenstein and his thoughts, which really feels like a slog. It just didn't click for me.

Reviewed on Sunday, May 21st, 2023, 7:45pm.

It is certainly a testament to Jane Austen's bitingly funny writing style that a book, if you boiled it down to simply plot, would not likely capture my attentions like Pride and Prejudice has. Instead, my inner monologue is yelling at Elizabeth to simply sit closer to Mr. Darcy, speak true her heart, with the same force which it might yell at a horror movie final girl for going up the stairs while the killer chases her. There is so much tension in these pages, so much humor and entertainment, that I was caught completely off-guard, despite her works obviously being canonized as classics. To see it firsthand was a real treat.

Reviewed on Tuesday, December 26th, 2023, 11:38am.