🌟🌟MINI REVIEW🌟🌟
Rachel Heng’s Suicide Club re-imagines a near-future America as a place where medical advancements have made immortality possible and where class lines are now redrawn by a new form of classism and ageism: the estimated length of your lifespan. Here, people are separated into groups, “lifers” and “sub-100s,” those who have the potential to live forever and those who do not. It’s a fresh and unique way to envision a new version of a system that we’re already so familiar with and to see it play out in a futurist narrative, but this novel fell flat for me in more ways than one. °
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Heng’s Suicide Club offers up beautiful imagery, but it failed to move the story along. There are few things worse to a reader than pointless narrative that takes up space on the page simply for the sake of being pretty. I don’t know about you, but I like my narratives like I like my stilettos: pretty but still functional. But here the purple prose brimmed the pages, fluffed up like 80s hair, describing nothing that resonated or left a lasting impact. All the space of written nothingness could’ve been used to progress the actual plot. Such a wasted opportunity on the part of the author is such a source of ennui for me. °
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Suicide Club did not live up to my expectations, a real shame, because it was my first foray into anything resembling Sci Fi in quite a long while. 3 stars🌟🌟🌟 SEE THE FULL REVIEW AT MY BLOG ☝🏽😁🧡📚
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Hey guys! Episode 2 of #CaviarSeries is out! See what happened, what we ate (and what we drank) at Mojitos by clicking the link above! ☝🏽😁🍸🍽
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We started the day off with Bailey’s and bourbon in lidded coffee cups. You know, the kind that keep in the heat or the cold of your beverage so you can stroll around sipping all morning. And that’s what we did. My roommate Jennifer and I pulled up at Conni’s house, and within ten minutes they’d whipped up a concoction of cold coffee and liquor–“Ooof, try that, girl; it’s strong!”–and I’d filled a cup with a sweet red wine, lidded it and added a straw for good measure. I couldn’t figure out how the lid worked—why do they keep making these things more and more complicated?—and Jennifer showed me how over the kitchen sink, teasingly stroking my shoulder and saying, “You’re so pretty. It’s okay because you’re pretty.” We laughed...
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We walked up to Mojitos and claimed the outdoor table for ourselves, settling in under the umbrella as Jennifer went in to tell the waiter that we’d chosen that table. Not that it mattered, like they couldn’t see us. The restaurant had just opened and had no patrons inside. Only black-and-white-clad servers in casual getups sitting around at the bar talking shit with one another. We told them they should turn their sign around; it still read closed.
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Q: What did you eat with your 📚s this weekend? 🧡
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Ok guys, it's FINALLY here! My foodie blog series, CAVIAR: CHRONICLES OF A FOODIE GIRL has finally began! Check out the full post @ The Navi Review, www.thenavireview.com, and read along through my foodie, bookish and life adventures! 🍽🍸
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Episode 1: il Giallo Osteria & Bar
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I’ve been busy trying to find myself the past few years, but, then again, haven’t we all? As most people do at this age, I’ve been searching for myself, but I don’t seem to want to be found. Recently, I’ve been amazed at how many of my friends in my age bracket [28-35ish] have been feeling this way, wondering if we’ve made the right choices in life so far, wondering why our lives aren’t the way we’d envisioned them, wondering why dating is so hard, why marriage doesn’t look like a Cinderella story like the grown folks said it would with all those damned Disney movies they fed us, wondering why ladder climbing is so arduous. It’s cause enough to drive us crazy, to drive us to texting each other after work things like: SORRY, WONT BE ANSWERING MY PHONE WHEN I GET HOME CUZ I NEED TO GRAB A DRINK & FIGURE OUT MY LIFE.
Many of you don’t know these things about me, but now’s your chance to figure them out, my open book to you. This series, Caviar, is the life and times of an admittedly witty, often wry, newly-30-something as she eats and drinks her way through the cities…and her growing pains that sometimes feel like incessant cramps. You know me for my book reviews and author interviews–two of my absolute joys in life–and now you can get to know another side of me, too. Follow along, and we’ll uncover new things together.
When I met her for dinner last week, a massive storm had just hit Atlanta out of nowhere...
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