Writer Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen has been something of a minor blockbuster in the book world over the past year, with reviewers hailing her book as "satisfyingly unsettling," or "perverse, squalid, and sinister." This left me hoping for a psychological thriller, or at least a gripping read. What I got instead was a banal melodrama. The plot is … Continue reading I really wish I liked Eileen
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Tackling The New York Time’s Best Sellers List
I have a feeling I'm going to wind up abandoning this ambitious goal, but I want to make a project of reading every #1 book on the New York Time's Best Seller List (Combined Print & E-Book Fiction) for the next little bit. For two reasons, mainly: 1) Because as an English major, and especially … Continue reading Tackling The New York Time’s Best Sellers List
