Dumpster Diving, Lie Detectors, and the Female Body | February 2025 Reading Wrap Up

I normally prefer novels but I was so surprised by how much I enjoyed American house wife by Helen Ellis

there is so much amazing information in here I couldn't even begin to itemize every last thing that I'm going to take away from this book and carry into my everyday life which always means that I've just read a lifechanging work of non-fiction so if you didn't already guess this was a five-star book for me Illuminating mindblowing a joy to read the whole way through

this book is written in such a compelling compassionate way like she removes all of the Pomp and Circumstance of the presidency of the White House and shows them just as the real people that they were I loved this

this is just such a fun at times sad but just personality packed little book that I enjoyed so much I've had some mixed results with the story graphs recommendations over the years but this one was great

I thought this was good again middle of the road was kind of the theme for my fiction reading month but this one actually ended up being more memorable than I thought it would be when I first put it down it's been a little while now since I finished this and it's actually stayed with me a lot more than I thought it would

I just wanted more plot from this I just needed a little bit more I was thinking about whether or not I wanted to continue on with this series so I was looking at reviews of later books in the series while dodging spoilers as much as humanly possible and what I was Finding is that people seem to like this first book better than any other installment in the series and if I felt this way about this initial book when it seems to be everybody's favorite this is probably going to be a one anddone kind of experience for me cute just not super memorable

the dialogue is great this author is a playright and it's been true in every novel I've read that was written by a playwright that's the case the dialogue is always really solid I mean that's the job when you're writing a script so that tracks there's a lot of nuance there was a lot of intentionality behind the word choices so I guess it's like madm in more than one way now that I think about it but I didn't feel as much intention behind the happenings of the plot Beyond a certain point

although I was very impressed by the research and when that storytelling was good it was really good I definitely want to read more from this author I just don't feel he went far enough in answering some natural questions that readers are bound to have about the test in our current ERA