pootriarch rated Railtown: 3 stars
Railtown by Ethan Elkind
The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling. Traffic, air pollution, and sprawl …
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mostly sapphic·witch·romance (pick two) and, in mentally calmer times, climate paranoia
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pootriarch rated Men Explain Things to Me: 3 stars
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
"In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations …
pootriarch rated The song machine: 5 stars
The song machine by John Seabrook
There's a reason hit songs offer such guilty pleasure--they're designed that way. Over the last two decades a new type …
pootriarch rated Unfathomable City: 3 stars
Unfathomable City by Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker
Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one …
pootriarch rated The moving metropolis: 4 stars
pootriarch rated The Szyk Haggadah: 4 stars
pootriarch rated Beautiful Creatures Tarot: 4 stars
pootriarch rated Anna Dressed in Blood: 3 stars
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake (Anna, #1)
pootriarch rated Make Good Art: 4 stars
pootriarch rated Daughter of Smoke & Bone: 4 stars
Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae …
pootriarch rated The shining girls: 4 stars
Lauren Beukes: The shining girls (Hardcover, 2013)
The shining girls by Lauren Beukes
"A time-traveling serial killer is impossible to trace-- until one of his victims survives. In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds …
pootriarch rated Eleanor & Park: 5 stars
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Two misfits. One extraordinary love.
Eleanor
...Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside …
pootriarch rated Gone Girl: 1 star
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are …
pootriarch rated The Raven Boys: 5 stars
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Cycle, #1)
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's …
pootriarch rated Code Name Verity: 5 stars
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Oct. 11th, 1943—A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the …