TL;DR: this is one of the most hurtful and painfully cruel books I have ever attempted to read. I have serious concerns about readers’ potential experiences with this story, and the harm and hurt it may cause. My notes begin with the following sentence and I stand by it: THIS BOOK IS TOXIC. Please proceed with this review and with this book with extreme caution. TW/CW: fat shaming, disordered eating, and physical and emotional self-harm … Continue reading Good Luck With That by Kristan Higgins →
TW for rape, animal harm, and the general shitbaggery of Nazi occupation of Poland during WWII. I’m gonna be straight up with you here: this is a difficult watch. It’s a movie about the Holocaust, so that’s one layer, but it’s also about a zoo in wartime. And it’s about an occupied city in wartime. There’s also a young girl who gets raped, so if you want to tap out right here, I don’t blame … Continue reading Movie Review: The Zookeeper’s Wife →
The downside of living in a smallish city is that sometimes (usually) I have to spend months waiting for independent or foreign movies to come out online or on DVD before I can watch them. If, like me, you’ve been waiting for what seems like decades to see The Handmaiden — rejoice! It is finally available on iTunes and Amazon. The Handmaiden is an erotic movie directed by Park Chan-wook, set in Japanese-occupied Korea in … Continue reading Movie Review: The Handmaiden →
