Books I have read recently but have little to say about, a list

[pantryslut]

* Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi (thumbs up)
* Black Wave, Michelle Tea (conditional thumbs up)
* Ambassador, William Alexander (children's book, major thumbs up, but also major cliffhanger so buy it with the sequel, see below)
* The Refrigerator Monologues, Catherynne Valente (thumbs up)
* Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon (thumbs up)
* Miss Rhythm, the autobiography of Ruth Brown (because I was working on a profile of Brown for NPR (!!!)) (thumbs up, it won an award for a reason)
* maybe some things that were not thumbs up? And they have thus escaped my mind.

Now reading:

* The Art of Flavor, by Mandy Aftel and Daniel Patterson
* Nomad, William Alexander
* several new cookbook acquisitions
* a big honkin' second-language acquisition textbook

Comments

[bigherman]

I had slightly mixed feelings about the Refrigerator Monologues. It didn't feel as new and unusual to me as it seemed to to other people? But Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman and maybe After the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughn took a little of the wind out of my sails there. I expected the premise and where it went. I suspect I would have enjoyed it more as an audiobook, so I would have slowed down and savored the language a little more.

[pantryslut]

I didn't find it as transgressively breakthroughish as it was sold as, but I am a big comic book geek so I enjoyed it on that level, as well as the language level. I enjoyed it, I'd recommend it to others, I don't have a lot to say about it otherwise.