January
- Domald Tromp Pounded In The Butt By The Handsome Russian T-Rex Who Also Peed On His Butt And Then Blackmailed Him With The Videos Of His Butt Getting Peed On by Chuck Tingle – (B) I think the title says it all.
- Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg – (B+) Rafe is tired of being the “openly gay” kid at school so he transfers and goes back in the closet – sort of. That is until he falls in love. It’s heartwarming and heartbreaking.
- Prey by Michael Crichton – (C-) This might be my least favorite Crichton book. It reads like a lazy Jurassic retread. The science it muddy and confusing and the nanobot swarms get ridiculous towards the end.
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume – (B+) Toddlers, amirite?
- The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty – (B+) Cecilia finds a letter addressed to her “in the event of her husband’s death.” The problem is that her husband is still alive and now he is acting strangely.
- Wild: From Lost to Founds on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayed (B) – This is one of those travel memories where the under-employed, nearly homeless, divorced, orphaned, drug abuser decides to go on some crazy adventure and barely lives to tell the tale.
- You’re Not Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day – (B) – Felicia seems…troubled. Not sure I would want to hang with her but the book was interesting to see how someone with anxiety manages to make good in Hollywood.
February
- Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics by Dan Harris – (C) A how-to on mediation for busy people. It was fine but I felt like I learned everything in the first chapter. Apparently the audiobook is really good because it’s more off-the-cuff banter.
- Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin – (B+) This is told in first-person from the view of a 50-something Michael reflecting on his halcyon days and his aging family.
- Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk – (A) A truly gripping and suspenseful book about a young girl’s kindness and compassion in dealing with a bully and a tragedy in her post WWII farming community. I loved it.
