Kiss, Marry or Kill: 51
A book that left me like "WTAF." Plus, dogs are family (so you need this), I like this food and you can't shame me out of it, do this one thing to reduce dementia risk, and GLP-1s versus Doritos
This is my weekly series for subscribers only, where I’ll share things that caught my eye this week in a fun and flirty way (kiss), a sustainable way (marry), or a not-so-good way (kill). And yes, this trendy game is technically “f***, marry, or kill” but we run a family-friendly-ish show around here.
Kiss (things I like right now MAYBE???)
The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward (←audiobook)
This is not a new book (2021), and it’s been on zillions of “best horror books” TikToks, but for some reason I always passed it over. Then it came up as available on Libby and without even reading the summary, I thought, “What the hell.”
WHAT THE HELL INDEED. Nothing could have prepared me for this book. If you are going to dive in, here’s what you need to know, with zero spoilers because I would not cheat you out of one moment of this virtual acid trip:
The story is whackadoodle. It’s going to feel like you’re taking crazy pills for quite some time. Just go with it; you’re not meant to understand yet.
It comes together in a perfectly paced, utterly unhinged manner. But like, it’s genius? Like you’ve been huffing really good paint, but only a little at a time.
Just when you start to understand—OPE, no you do not.
It speeds up at the end like that time five of us took a taxi in Tijuana after drinking Micheladas all day. You will think you know where you are going and still you really will not.
Did I like it? Y….es? But also super duper no, because it was really f***ed up, and NOT in a fun Library at Mount Char way. I feel like I’m doing something wrong in recommending it but zero judgement if you’re like, “Girl, the more messed up, the better.”