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I just finished the book “Courtney Comes Clean” by Maer Roshan.
3.5/5
My review from Goodreads:
I’m going to keep this review short and simple: I liked the book. Until I realized how short it was and how much the author left frayed. I felt like I had become friends with Courtney with the interview narrating. After reading the book, I did a bit of research on Courtney which I otherwise would have never gone into, which was a bit of a challenge but interesting all the same. What can I say? She’s an interesting person who does and says interesting things. I share her love for fashion and men, and to be honest, I wouldn’t mind talking to her even if it DID require bipolar Twitter conversations (I’m not using bipolar here as a stigma—I’m using it because Courtney could very well have bipolar disorder). Enough said. If you’re interested in Courtney, more so than Kurt or their daughter, then give this a read. If anything, you might learn something you wouldn’t have pegged to be attributed to Courtney.
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“Filaria” by Brent Hayward
4/5
The first thing I noticed was how high the diction was. A lot of the words are archaic, adding to the tone of the book. Some of the words are just weird. And some of the words are made up. Everything you could ask for in a sci-fi novel! The grammar was impeccable, and I absolutely love this writer’s style. Even though I’m not typically interested in description pertaining to environment or place, it’s almost impossible to understand sci-fi without understanding the world the characters are living in (or in this case, worlds?) A lot of the metaphors also caught me off guard, but in a good way. Most were so original that I literally had to sit there in a silence for a few moments to completely absorb what I had just read.
Read the rest of my review here
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Enter here to win a free copy of Madeleine L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time”—the 50th anniversary edition.
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(via lettersintheampersand)
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Guillermo del Toro has a new book out? Okay.
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“A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown” by Julia Scheeres
3/5
Read my review here
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(by Gio)
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I have a chronic neurological inflammatory autoimmune disorder--otherwise known as chronic Lyme Disease--that I'm currently struggling through every day. That's all you need to know. (That, and I read books:)
