Adapt Me Podcast – The Bluest Eye

Hi Everybody! The latest episode of the Adapt Me Podcast is up right now. In it, guest Amy Thomasson from the Women InSession Podcast and I talk about how we would adapt The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison into an opera. We discuss the gorgeous prose and how it would be difficult to translate it toContinue reading “Adapt Me Podcast – The Bluest Eye”

The Bluest Eye Book Review

Content warning: this review discusses racism and sexual assault. I have read books by many famous authors, but there has been one that has eluded me until now: Toni Morrison. She is one of the most prolific African-American authors and wrote some of the most well-known titles in the late twentieth century. These include Sula,Continue reading “The Bluest Eye Book Review”

Kittentits Book Review

When I finished reading Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder a while back, I wondered if I could ever read something as insane and absurd as that. My question was answered when a dear friend, who works at a library, told me about Kittentits by Holly Wilson, which got published this year. She told me about theContinue reading “Kittentits Book Review”

Adapt Me Podcast – Kittentits

Hi Everybody! Grab your hot air balloons, travel to the World’s Fair, and conduct a seance because guest Sarah Rick I talk about how we would adapt Kittentits by Holly Wilson on the latest episode of the Adapt Me Podcast. You can check it out at this link. My review of Kittentits will be up nextContinue reading “Adapt Me Podcast – Kittentits”

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry Book Review

A long time ago, I read a little book called A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. It was a wonderful novel that has influenced a subsection of the lit subgenre that I’d like to call “curmudgeon novels.” Since it was his debut novel, Backman had to follow up with something that was just asContinue reading “My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry Book Review”