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Book of the Month sometimes affects my posting schedule. That is the case this month.

They have two of the books I’m planning on featuring this month available as main picks, and three available as add-ons.

Let’s do a quick summary of what’s to come and then I’ll give you the full review for MADWOMAN.

The full review of BLUE SISTERS by Coco Mellors will post today on Substack. Ensure you are following me over there to stay on top of other things I discuss.

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I’m currently in the middle of HERE ONE MOMENT by Liane Moriarty. That review will post next Tuesday. I cannot go faster, I tried, and there is no reason to. It’s ok, not great. It’s long which I’m sure isn’t surprising if you’re acquainted with Moriarty. I’ll probably land between 3-4 stars but it may have a twist that hasn’t happened yet.

It may surprise me. I’ll never count a book out after my experience with ENLIGHTENMENT. Sarah Perry surprised me in the last fourth of the book. I read ENLIGHTENMENT so I could rank all of the Booker Longlisted titles. That ranking is due at the end of this week. I’m not sure where that will end up…most likely substack.

I heard a solid rumor that SLEEP TIGHT by J.H. Markert features a questionable disfigurement that is off-putting and not good for disability rep, so I would pass on that, and did.

Spoiler-alert, I gave BLUE SISTERS by Coco Mellors five stars so I’d probably pick that one if it were me. But not everyone is as impressed with it as I was. A trusted source said that it felt like a representation bingo board which is never a good feeling. I thought it represented and did it well. I’m still in the WE NEED ALL THE REPRESENTATION WE CAN GET camp, so if you’re anything like me, I think you’ll appreciate it.

My review for THE NIGHT WE LOST HIM by Laura Dave will come later this month. Big surprise for me there. Keep your eye out.

I’m personally looking forward to reading Matt Haig, and Sally Rooney this month. INTERMEZZO is under tight wraps and I have not heard a single thing about it pre-publication. That could be due to marketing efforts and it’s great or exactly the opposite and they’re trying to remove influencers impact on bad material.

Only time will tell. I have INTERMEZZO pre-ordered and will post my review as early as the 25th.

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My other question is: Are you ready for horror titles? They’re coming up! Some of them I’ve been saving all year. Because I read horror all year long, not just in October.

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And now MADWOMAN!

MADWOMAN
Chelsea Bieker

MADWOMAN is about the madness of motherhood.

Clove receives a letter one day at the post office that upends her life. It’s a letter from an attorney representing her mom. Anything from her mother would be bad but this letter is the worst.

Moments after leaving the post office she gets into a fender bender with a woman who goes by the name of Jane. Jane will set Clove’s life even further off course but she’s too frazzled to realize how disruptive and disastrous she is.

We follow along as Clove and Jane forge a peculiar relationship that seems to be the only thing keeping Clove from becoming a MADWOMAN.

What is in the letter and what will Clove eventually do about it? All that and more in Chelsea Bieker’s summer drama MADWOMAN.