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The Woo-Woo | Lindsay Wong

One sentence: How did this child make it out alive? Three thoughts: I would very much like to meet the Wongs. So much of what happens in this book seems like it has to be hyperbole… but then, maybe not? I love books that take place in locations that I’ve been to. I loved looking up the places in the book on Google Maps. I kinda feel like memoirs should have to come with pictures. I want to see pictures of the family! Rating Characters: I feel like an asshole rating  ...

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Rubyfruit Jungle | Rita Mae Brown

One sentence: Pretty decent fictional memoirish bildungsroman. Three thoughts: I kind of despite the way kids are written in literature. It’s so rare to find an author who can portray kids the way they actually are. I was super into the whole Mad Men part of the book, where Molly works in an office. Fuck the patriarchy and all that. I found it odd that Molly really never questioned her own feelings, despite being told by literally every influence in her life that her feelings were  ...

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Bellevue Square | Michael Redhill

One sentence: What the fuck did I just read? Three thoughts: I was very caught off guard by the switch from this being a creepy novel about a doppelgänger to a creepy novel about someone’s mental health. But I liked it. I read the first third of the book very slowly, unsure whether I wanted to continue. I absolutely flew through the rest of it. When it picked up, it really picked up. I’m still confused by the ending. Who was actually alive, Jean or Inger? Or both? Rating  ...

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All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, Bryn Greenwood

(Disclaimer: this post is about a book that features a consensual relationship between a child and an adult.) Books that make you uncomfortable? Totally my kind of thing. I dive headfirst into books that contain touchy subject matter. I rage when anybody dares to say anything less than wonderful about Lolita because it is one of the most exquisitely written books in the world. I found All the Ugly and Wonderful Things in a BookRiot post called “Books We Wanted to Hate but Had to Love.” This  ...

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