Wants to read A Parade of Horribles
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Rated Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura 8/10
Rated Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage 6/10
Wants to read Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland
Rated M Train 10/10
Loved this. Time and mourning and love and art and objects.
Rated Carl's Doomsday Scenario 8/10
Wants to read Sunrise on the Reaping
Rated A Study in Scarlet 8/10
Wants to read The Call of Cthulhu
Rated The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 8/10
Rated Excavation 10/10
What Wendy Ortiz’s writing does is startle me. It makes me want to at once confess and hide. Like fellow Future Tense author Chloe Caldwell, her writing makes me feel vulnerable within its truth. It’s difficult to say that I <i>loved</i> this memoir, for it’s like loving the most difficult parts of oneself. Yet, <i>Excavation</i> is indeed one of the best memoirs I’ve seen. I read along knowing that her relationship with Jeff was wrong, but I squirmed over knowing how similarly I would’ve acted in her situation. Everything I’ve read from Ortiz makes me want more, to keep poking at those wounds, to see how we both keep on living. If one must use that desire as a measure of a book’s success, then let it be so.<br><br>(My full review can be found at <a href="http://persephonemagazine.com/2014/07/book-review-excavation-by-wendy-c-ortiz/">Persephone Magazine</a>.)
Rated Halo: The Fall of Reach 6/10
Rated The Hunt for Red October 8/10
Rated The First Amendment 6/10
Wants to read 1Q84 Haruki Murakami Speak
Rated The Body: A Guide for Occupants 8/10
Fantastic story telling of the human body as told by Bryson. Given we all occupy one it’s worth the read.