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The Bread the Devil Knead

Read The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini

Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a boutique in Port of Spain, but behind closed doors she’s covering up bruises from her abusive partner and seeking solace in an affair with her boss. When she witnesses a woman murdered by a jealous lover, the reality of her own future comes a little too close to home.

Around the World challenge: Trinidad and Tobago A book full of violence of nearly all kinds I could even imagine. And yet, I couldn’t put it down, stammering through the Creole and the pain, because Alathea is wonderful, everyone is wonderful, and I needed to know more about all these characters and what they’re going…

5-star reviews

Liked How was your experience? by Chris Coyier (chriscoyier.net)

I just want to echo Josh’s sentiment: In a way, it’s hard to blame companies because they honestly want to know and, in the best-case scenario, actually use what they get to make things better. But it’s oh-so-overwhelming. Just constantly about every single little thing. One of my favorites is when you log into hotel […]

I hate, hate, hate satisfaction surveys. I like Kévin’s suggestion in the comments: My only takeaway here is that, if you got one after speaking / chatting / writing to an actual human you should fill it in, five stars all the way (unless there is a real thing that person did that was in…

Rosemary’s Baby

Read Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

I felt like reading a classic, and very recently listened to You’re Wrong About’s Stepford Wives and The Exorcist episodes, which motivated me to read Rosemary’s Baby. And I’m very glad I did. This felt like an easier read than it should have been, because every single twist and turn of the book had been…

Proud pink sky

Read Proud Pink Sky by Redfern Jon Barrett

Berlin: a megacity of 24 million people, is the world’s first gay state. Its distant radio broadcasts are a lifeline for teenager William, so when his love affair with Gareth is discovered the two flee toward sanctuary. But is there a place for them in a city divided into districts for young twinks, trendy bears, and rich alpha gays?

Meanwhile, young mother Cissie loves Berlin’s towering highrises and chaotic multiculturalism, yet she’s never left her heterosexual district – not until she and her family are trapped in a queer riot. With her husband Howard plunging into religious paranoia, she discovers a walled-off slum of perpetual twilight, home to the city’s forbidden trans residents.

As William and Cissie dive deeper into a bustling world of pride parades, polyamorous trysts, and even an official gay language, they discover that all is not well in the gay state – each playing their part in a looming civil war…

The main negative review I see about Proud Pink Sky is that nothing happens. I don’t agree. Some things happen, maybe too much, actually. And outside of what happens, there’s the world-building − after all, that’s what we’re coming for. And the world-building has its issues. The idea is nice, and who among us hasn’t…

Time’s mouth

Read Time’s Mouth by Edan Lepucki ( )

Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950’s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. Yet Ursa’s powers come with a cost. Soon this cultish community of sisterhood takes an ominous turn, prompting her son, Ray, and his pregnant lover, Cherry, to flee their home for Los Angeles and reinvent themselves far from Ursa’s insidious influence. But escaping their past won’t be so easy. A series of mysterious events forces Cherry to abandon their baby, leaving Ray to raise Opal alone.

Now a teenager and still heartbroken over the abandonment of the mother she never knew, Opal must journey into her own past to reveal the generations of secrets that gave rise to the shimmering source of her family’s painful legacy.

I’m not really a time travel enthusiast, as I said in my review of This is how you lose the time war. Maybe that’s why I loved this novel so much while many others who love time travel hated everything about it. Maybe it’s also because I love stories with women and stories with communes…