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Exit Here. by Jason Myers
1.0
I read this book and still stayed an addict. I don’t remember if it’s good or not but i vividly remember reading it the Halloween of my eighth grade year and it definitely doesn’t hold any good memories for me now even though it was fine when I read it. From what reviews I’ve read, I won’t be revisiting it as a nostalgia read. It’ll just be a blip of a memory on a holiday I barely recall.
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
4.0
I remember reading this book in a Kroger while my grandmother was waiting for a prescription and then she got roped into watching a demonstration to get a free something or other. It was entertaining enough. I don’t recall a lot of it but I remember having a good time when I was in middle school. Better than watching a lady whip cream or whatever was happening in that grocery store. I do remember the way she gets back to the academy was really gripping to me that day. I wanted to know what else was going to happen so I asked her to buy it for me.
Stray Dogs by Tony Fleecs
5.0
This was a “dear comic book employee, please suggest me a horror trade” and this was one of a few suggested and the first that I read. I fucking vibed with this from the jump. It’s such an investing premise with such sweet imagery that you know will be horrifying at some point and you hate it with every page you turn. I recommend this to everyone who doesn’t have an adversity to animal violence because like… it’s dogs. That’s the whole thing. Other than that it’s a perfect first comic for anyone in my opinion. Even people who aren’t into horror. It’s the Disney gone wrong no one knew they needed.
The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd
5.0
This book made me say ‘boys loving boys is written better than girls loving girls? Well let me eat that shit up thank you very much’. I was also freshly 15 and who knows if it holds up. I’ll be rereading it next year.
Critical Role: Vox Machina — Kith & Kin by Marieke Nijkamp, Cast of Critical Role
4.0
This was a fun escape while taking care of my sick grandfather. I’d give it a couple chapters at a time when things got hard at a time where all I had were books and cassette tapes to comfort me. This was nice. Nothing life changing but I glad I got it.
Betwixt by Tara Bray Smith
4.0
I’ve read this a few times in my life and it’s the first book I annotated and BOY is it cringe to read those first few high school annotations. I thought I was so goddamn smart. Teenagers don’t know anything and have the arrogance of a thousand short, bald, white American men. I’m glad I have grown but I haven’t read it since I was twenty.
I haven’t read this in 9 years so I’m 99% sure my ramblings about the tiny bits I remember are not spoilers but be warned I might ramble an element on accident. I remember this being one of the first multipov books I read. The drug element was interesting. I remember wanting to be at that huge festival so badly. Something about butterflies. I remember a girl with dirt on her making coffee and a guy washing dishes… pizza? Tunnels and Washington state. The tunnels freaked me out. Longing was something I remember feeling while reading this. Granted I was a 16 year old addict in high school so that could have just been angst but I do remember that chest tightening ache to find the person or be loved or accepted or needed or respected in the way you need the most. Fairies but like… different? Orange. Park bench. Map. Sleepwalking. Too many bodies.
I think this is going on my list to be reread before the end of the year.
I haven’t read this in 9 years so I’m 99% sure my ramblings about the tiny bits I remember are not spoilers but be warned I might ramble an element on accident. I remember this being one of the first multipov books I read. The drug element was interesting. I remember wanting to be at that huge festival so badly. Something about butterflies. I remember a girl with dirt on her making coffee and a guy washing dishes… pizza? Tunnels and Washington state. The tunnels freaked me out. Longing was something I remember feeling while reading this. Granted I was a 16 year old addict in high school so that could have just been angst but I do remember that chest tightening ache to find the person or be loved or accepted or needed or respected in the way you need the most. Fairies but like… different? Orange. Park bench. Map. Sleepwalking. Too many bodies.
I think this is going on my list to be reread before the end of the year.
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
3.0
I would like to apologize to Paige for making her check this book out for me because I lost my library book before we graduated. Then I never turned this book in and this poor girls mom had to pay for it. It is a sin I will have to atone for one day. This is my least favorite. I don’t remember it much other than some things were drawn out and that was fun.
Ripper by Stefan Petrucha
5.0
This book was WILDLY entertaining. I lived for this book. I’ve reread it once or twice since the first time and it was still so much fun. The inventions, the agency itself was like something I dreamed of as a kid, the relationships between carver and everyone else were all interesting in their own ways. There was a significant amount of disbelief we do have to suspend during a book like this but it was easy to do.
If you want a quick fun ride with some mystery and action and a little love and the blissful confidence of someone who hasn’t grown up yet taking on the worlds most infamous serial killer, please read this.
If you want a quick fun ride with some mystery and action and a little love and the blissful confidence of someone who hasn’t grown up yet taking on the worlds most infamous serial killer, please read this.