Queen B’s Decree: Weyward was our book club’s choice for this month, and it was definitely a new-to-me author. I struggled with the plot. Essentially three women (in alternate timelines) are all considered “weyward,” where they are maybe witches? With an affinity for nature, birds, bugs, etc. But also they are all abused. Before I […]
Queen B’s Decree: I freely admit, I didn’t finish The Violence. I had an awful premonition of some scenes featuring abuse, so I went to Goodreads and read some reviews. And thankfully, I learned there were some graphic scenes about animal abuse. And that’s a hard no for me. So I quit The Violence. It […]
Queen B’s Decree: I’ve had a relatively good run of book club books, statistically it was time for a failure. When Women Were Dragons is this weird feminist story…yet I still don’t really know why anything happened, as I quit at about 30%. A large group of American women turned into dragons in a massive […]
Queen B’s Decree: I’ve owned Slaughterhouse-Five…a very long time. Unread, of course. So I decided to put it on my 23 books in 2023 list, as an attempt to make myself read my physical TBR. And everyone…I did. I loved the prose and the way the words flowed in Slaughterhouse-Five. But I still don’t know […]
Queen B’s Decree: I’ve recently learned that audiobooks are the best way for me to conquer my TBR. And the audio for Nightcrawling was pretty fantastic. I’ve been trying to go outside my comfort zone, and this one was definitely out of my norm. Nightcrawling is depressing, frankly. Kiara is stuck in this never-ending life […]
Queen B’s Decree: I don’t know what I expected from The Change, but it wasn’t all the man hating. Literally every male side character was a terrible person. Either a cheating husband, or a misogynist utilizing weaponized incompetence, or the HOA president wielding his power like a dictator. And I don’t vibe with that. So […]
Queen B’s Decree: I loved Anne of Green Gables so I was really excited to be given this copy of After Anne as a #bookclubgirlearlyread. But sadly, my interest waned quickly. There was a lot of dialogue from Anne of Green Gables sprinkled in, and I think that contributed to my mood. It almost felt […]
Queen B’s Decree: Savage Beasts is a retelling of the Greek tragedy Medea, but it’s set in the 1750’s India. I had a hard time connecting to the story, so many elements didn’t fit for me. Meena is the daughter of the Nawab, essentially royalty, yet she walks around with no chaperone and is able […]
Queen B’s Decree: The Retreat was a story that went into some deeper topics. Infertility, childhood abandonment, religion, and the strength of sisterhood. When Nadia suspects her husband of ten years of cheating, she reaches out to her estranged sister for support. I loved that Nadia and her sister Zeba grow together, and in doing […]
Queen B’s Decree: Yellow Wife was the choice for book club, and it was definitely not something I would have normally picked up. It’s a powerful story, told from the point-of-view of a female slave. And even more interesting, a biracial slave. Pheby was a difficult character to connect with. She’d grown not really belonging […]