HeyJaredEva's Reads
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An Actually Excellent Book by Rachel Cusk (opens the original)
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Let me save you all the trouble and say that I purchased Life of M, and it was horrendous. Usually I try not to write about books I don’t like on the blog… because I’m not trying to incur that kind of bad karma. However, I will just address Life of M in brief and say that for a book purporting to be about the profound nature of celebrity, perhaps the only thing it shows is that even the niche level of notoriety that comprises a literary celebrity like Cusk is enough to cause one to lose perspect
Eva's Beach Read of 2026 (opens the original)
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Looking for the perfect beach read? Something gossipy, gnarly, and with a vacation (ish…) setting? Look no further— if you liked the absolute nihilism of Mary McCarthy’s The Group, you might like her scathing Cape Cod satire based on her own life — A Charmed Life (1955). We love a revenge novel!Thanks for perusing Eva's Reads! Subscribe to annihilate the construct of the beach read.<input class="email-inpu
BOOK BLOG #23 (opens the original)
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For lovers of historical fiction, I want to recommend Tayari Jones’ fifth and newest novel, Kin (2026), which I finished last week. Kin follows the childhood and young adulthood of two “cradle friends,” as they call each other— Vernice (Niecy) and Annie. After growing up together in 1950s Honeysuckle, Louisiana, a dangerously still place, Niecy goes to Spelman College in Atlanta (Jones’ alma mater) and Annie takes the long way round to Memphis to try to find her mother, who abandoned her as a ba
BOOK BLOG #22 (opens the original)
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Virginia Woolf called it “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.” Min Jin Lee regards it the “best English-language novel, period.” Martin Amis called it a “novel without weaknesses.” Zadie Smith loves it. One can pull up countless examples of the best modern writers who hold Middlemarch in the highest esteem.For many years I have wondered: why are people so obsessed with this book?After more than a decade of thinking about, trying to, and saying I was reading Middlemarch, I
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