All Fours: A Novel

This book was basically 85% some lady masturbating in a hotel room, 5% really funny commentary on middle age, and 10% people doing what sound like extremely cringey dances while other people masturbated about them and/or had profound emotions because of their hip hop dance skillz. I haaaaaated this.

This book put me through the ringer! The first part read like my mind when I'm having an anxiety attack, so It was overwhelming. As we moved out of the main characters head and into the story, things got much better. The book was weird, the book was kinky, but at the end, I decided the book was good and I enjoyed the laughs It gave me.

This book was a journey. An epic, emotional voyage. July is a talented writer in control of the story and the characters. This is a moving exploration of what it means to be a person and how to deal with who you are.

DNF - This book was too bizarre and it gave me the ick. It’s about a nihilistic woman going through a manic midlife crisis. I thought the main character was a pretentious compulsive liar and an overall creep. I also just don’t want to read anything glorifying infidelity.

The author is a good writer and I found myself liking some of her reflections about life. However, she seems like a person who likes to stew in awkward cringey moments just to punish herself, so reading this was just too uncomfortable. It’s the first book I decided not to finish this year!

is this legally even fiction