I’ve known so many self-destructive and obsessive people in my life – including, perhaps, myself when I younger – that Pizza Girl resonated with me. Despite having a loving mother and devoted boyfriend, the narrator – a pregnant 18-year-old who works at a pizzeria – is unhappy without knowing why.
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Two completely different novels continually came to mind while reading Self Care, a funny and incisive satirical tale about two female entrepreneurs who create Richual, a social media company for women who want to take better care of themselves (and how that company, like so many others, is anything but nurturing).
If you need something light to read over the holidays, you’d be hard pressed to find anything funnier than Man Overbored, a novella by Paul J. Laverty. This comedy is so short it can practically be inhaled – but what a rush it gives.
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It’s safe to say I became obsessed to an almost unhealthy degree with The Spill – or more specifically, with its characters. To some degree The Spill reminded me of The Corrections and The Slap – both largeish novels that deal with complex relationships and families, and that pull you into the different characters’ worlds.
I liked The Third Hotel. At least, I think I did. Everything about this book makes me pause for thought. It’s both easy and difficult to read, clear cut and yet confusing. Just like the intro to this review, it’s conflicting and uncertain.
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