Category: read in 2022

• February 5, 2022

  Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

  “He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Love in the Time of Cholera” Review: Giving this…
• February 4, 2022

  The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

  “We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.” – Colson Whitehead, “The Nickel Boys” Review: The Nickel Boys is another one of those books with…
• February 2, 2022

  The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

  “I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. ” – Joan Didion, “The…
• January 31, 2022

  The Color Purple by Alice Walker

  ““I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more…
• January 29, 2022

  Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

  “I did not know that there are miles between running out of things to say, and running out of the strength to say them.” – Ashley C. Ford, “Somebody’s Daughter” Review: I wanted to love this book. When I read the synopsis of Somebody’s Daughter on Book of the Month Club, I was immediately drawn…
• January 28, 2022

  In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

  “You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn’t. It’s the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn’t require a future.” – Rebecca Serle, “In Five Years” Review: In Five Years by…
• January 26, 2022

  Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales

  “Setting aside the messiness of which accents were considered sexy in which cultures and why, accents in general were nature’s way of saying, “Procreate with that one, their gene code must be varied as f—.” Few things, it seemed, could turn a person on as quickly as the subconscious realization they almost certainly weren’t flirting…
• January 24, 2022

  A Star is Bored by Byron Lane

  “Life only exists in your mind. Everything you see, everything you hear, all of it, it goes through your eyes and ears and is processed by your mind, and the mind can lie, can be sick, can get it wrong.” – Byron Lane, “A Star is Bored” Review: During my latest trip to the library…
• January 22, 2022

  Verity by Colleen Hoover

  “A writer should never have the audacity to write about themselves unless they’re willing to separate every layer of protection between the author’s soul and their book. The words should come directly from the center of the gut, tearing through flesh and bone as they break free. Ugly and honest and bloody and a little…
• January 21, 2022

  Forward March by Skye Quinlan

  Publication date: March 8th, 2022 – eBook provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Since this book is as of yet, unpublished, this review will not contain direct quotes from the text. Review: Full disclosure here: I am a 31-year-old woman, and not in the target audience for this book.…