Colin Cogle rated Death to Jar Sauce: 4 stars
Death to Jar Sauce by Nat's What I Reckon
Nat’s debut book Un-cook Yourself: A Ratbag’s Rules For Life topped bestseller lists in its first week of release and …
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Nat’s debut book Un-cook Yourself: A Ratbag’s Rules For Life topped bestseller lists in its first week of release and …
Thirty years after a tragic accident shut down production of the classic children's program Mister Magic, the five surviving cast …
Carmen Sanchez is back in her home country of Mexico, overseeing the renovation of an ancient cathedral into a boutique …
All in all, I quite enjoyed this. While I'm no expert on Mexican culture, it did provide a breath of fresh air in a typically whitewashed genre. It wasn't necessarily the greatest story ever told, but when it was all over, I enjoyed my time spent reading this.
Carmen Sanchez is back in her home country of Mexico, overseeing the renovation of an ancient cathedral into a boutique …
I originally rated this three stars, but this book did something that few books do: it stuck in my head, and I kept thinking about it long after I'd finished it. The premise may seem like cheap sci-fi up front, but it makes you think about life, planned obsolescence, and more.
It’s not the content I don’t like. It’s the writing style. The stream of consciousness devolves into sentences that are paragraphs long, and paragraphs that span multiple pages. Sometimes I just had to skip ahead past the unneeded description and fantasizing until the plot resumed. I still can’t figure out how the book ended, even after re-reading it.
I’d read another of this author’s books, though. I feel like there was some great promise here, but it was poorly executed.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Once in a great while, a book comes along that …