Author: Wayne Gladstone
Rating: 2.5 Stars
Review By: Shana

Imagine it: one day, the internet mysteriously winks out. What would you do? In this brief novel, Gladstone attempts to answer the question with mixed results.  

Author: Rob Dircks
Rating: 3.75 Stars
Review By: Shana

Purely a fun ride. Meet Chip. He is, self-admittedly, a bit of an underachiever and, it must be a said, a douche. He messed up a good relationship, has a thankless job, and sometimes panics when calm is needed.  

Author: Drew Magary
Rating: 3 Stars
Review By: Shana

​Take my 3 stars with a grain of salt—this is a very tough book to review.  As a pure story, I did not love this book.  The narrator is not sympathetic, his emotions and motivations are eminently shallow, and his romances have all the depth of a high school attachment.  In many ways, the world he lays out lacks dimension, sort of a stage set for ideas.  However, as a thought-piece—triggering musings on life and death, motivation and commitment, overpopulation and environmental challenges, euthanasia and disease, religion and class—it is excellent.

Author: Samantha Irby
Rating: 5 Stars

Review By: Shana

​I absolutely loved this book. It comes at a time when I needed a book to make me belly laugh, snort, and nearly spew out my tea with shock and amusement. Irby pulls no punches, skirts no issues, avoids no intimacy with her cutting, ribald, downright dirty, and foul-mouthed humor. But it is humor with heart and real insight.  She relays the messy and the broken and the tragic, but with wit and attitude. Absolutely recommended so long as you aren't queasy about bathroom humor, sex, and some unfortunate events accompanying a cremation scattering.