This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps

3 stars Going into this, I didn’t really know much about Busy Philipps. I’m not really a person who avidly follows celebrities’ lives, despite how many memoirs I find myself reading. I’ve seen her in Freaks and Geeksand White Chicks so when I saw the audiobook at the library, I figured it was worth a read. I wasn’t…

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Ralph Wrecks This Book!

2 stars I was initially intrigued by the concept of this book. Paging through it, the illustrations looked fun and interesting. While I enjoyed the pictures, the writing is pretty lackluster. It is mostly dialogue with not much of a plot. The illustrations were very entertaining though. I especially enjoyed when Ralph gets wrapped up…

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

3 stars This is a hard one for me to rate. While this book was powerful at times (that last page though!), at others it fell kind of flat. And while I can appreciate the amount of bravery and self-reflection that went into telling this story, it just wasn’t that interesting to me.  There were…

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Ten in the Meadow by John Butler

3 stars I found a copy of this book in the Little Free Library and was sad to see that the first page was falling out. I decided to take it home and doctor it up (see tips here) so I figured I might as well read it too.  This was a simple little book,…

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The White Book by Han Kang

4 stars I received a copy of this book from Goodreads in exchange for an honest review. Such a beautiful and haunting book. I really enjoyed this one. I read Han Kang’s Human Acts a while ago and absolutely loved it so I was so excited when I won a Goodreads giveaway for another one of her…

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My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper

4 stars This was a very funny book. I love Kemper’s characters in Bridesmaidsand The Office so it was fun to hear weird and humorous stories related to them as well as other parts of Kemper’s life. Honesty, this was just a great feel good book.  I think sometimes celebrity books can read a little dry in physical…

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