Books I've Rated 4 / 5

• The Lathe of Heaven

  by Ursula K. Le Guin

  Finished 2016-12-01

• The Girl with All the Gifts

  by M.R. Carey

  Finished 2016-11-07

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

  by Mark Haddon

  Finished 2016-10-31

• The Dispatcher

  by John Scalzi, Zachary Quinto

  Finished 2016-10-15

• The Woman in Cabin 10

  by Ruth Ware

  Finished 2016-10-06

• Fear the Sky

  by Stephen Moss

  Finished 2016-09-04

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  by J. K. Rowling

  Finished 2016-07-07

  Note: please see my 2025 blog post re: Rowling

• Old Man's War

  by John Scalzi

  Finished 2016-06-15

• Lock In

  by John Scalzi

  Finished 2016-05-23

• Disclaimer

  by Renée Knight

  Finished 2016-05-11

  Not a lot to say about this book that wouldn’t ruin it but I really enjoyed it. It’s pulpy and a bit graphic, in sometimes maybe unnecessary ways, but it’s really well put-together and unpredictable start-to-finish.

• Bird by Bird Some Instructions on Writing and Life

  by Anne Lamott

  Finished 2016-02-27

• Carry On

  by Rainbow Rowell, Jim Tierney

  Finished 2016-01-06

• The Silkworm

  by Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling

  Finished 2016-01-01

  Note: please see my 2025 blog post re: Rowling

• Bossypants

  by Tina Fey

  Finished 2015-12-23

  Having listened to Amy Poehler’s “Yes Please” and Mindy Kaling’s “Why Not Me” before this, I’d say this was my favorite of the three. All good, but this one had some of the sharpest stuff in it. Funny stuff, insightful cultural commentary, interesting stories. Each had these (and that’s part of why I group them - the other reason being that they’re of course all semi-autobiographical books by modern women of comedy), but I felt like this one brought the most.

  It was weird though to hear her talk about 30 Rock like it’s still on.

  And the chapter about her dad was sweet and interesting but in parts really sounded like she was justifying some, at best, “dated” (more realistically: racist) views. I think she was just sort of explaining how her dad grew up and came to believe what he believed but there were a few things that seemed to dance close to justification rather than just … I don’t know, explanation. Don’t even know if this paragraph makes sense. I just felt like it got a bit uncomfortable for a minute in that chapter.

• Modern Romance

  by Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg

  Finished 2015-12-14