
Title: Life Without Children- Stories
Author: Roddy Doyle
Genre: Short Stories
Number of Pages: 192
Rating: B
Recommended?: Yes

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Title: Life Without Children- Stories
Author: Roddy Doyle
Genre: Short Stories
Number of Pages: 192
Rating: B
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: Word Nerd
Author: Susin Nielsen
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 258
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
Title: We Spread
Author: Iain Reid
Genre: Psychological Thrillers
Number of Pages: 304
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
Title: Monsters
Author: Emerald Fennell
Genre: Horror
Number of Pages: 340
Rating: A+
Recommended?: Yes
Title: There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom
Author: Louis Sachar
Genre: Middle Grade Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 195
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: The Atrocities
Author: Jeremy C. Shipp
Genre: Horror Novella
Number of Pages: 105
Rating: B-
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: Saint Iggy
Author: K.L. Going
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 272
Rating: A
Recommended?: Yes
Title: The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
Author: Susin Nielsen
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 256
Rating: A
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: Life Is Fine
Author: Allison Whittenberg
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 192
Rating: B
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: This Is Where We Talk Things Out
Author: Caitlin Marceau
Genre: Horror Novella
Number of Pages: 114
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
Batshit crazy mother. Isolated locale. Impending snowstorm. What could possibly go wrong?
This Is Where We Talk Things Out is an engaging psychological horror novella about a woman, Miller, drawn back into a toxic relationship with her mentally disturbed mother Sylvie. Miller’s girlfriend Florence warns her against getting sucked back into Sylvie’s drama, but she reluctantly decides to give her one last chance in a long series of last chances. But when Sylvie’s behavior gets more and more out-of-control, Miller finds herself fighting for her life.
The big reveal of this story was… not surprising. I didn’t mind, though. The predictability didn’t get in the way of me enjoying the book. I liked that even though Sylvie’s homophobic attitudes towards her daughter are touched upon there wasn’t a huge focus on that aspect of the story. The mother-daughter relationship felt very realistic and very uncomfortable. It only jumped the shark a bit and allowed the situation to become borderline cartoonish in the last 10 pages or so. Still, a fun read with some genuinely spooky and disturbing moments.