You can also do that by going to the review individually and changing the date there.

Thank you! It looks like I can do it on the computer, but not my phone.

Has anyone read Althea & Oliver? I think it's great and unpredictable and a whole bunch of other stuff. But I have lots of feels about how rape is portrayed in this book and most of those feels are angry and annoyed.

I haven't read it, Kat. Now I want to!

I'm putting this here for now. Things Althea & Oliver get right.

1. The potential for that enmeshed friendship that occurs when you have known someone for so long.

2. Unrequited feelings and how ambiguous it can be for both people. It's not always leading someone on or taking advantage. But it's more complicated.

3. The sheer amount of alcohol and cigarette consumption that can (and does) happen in high school. Not in a romantic way, but in a totally blase way.

4. Sometimes sex can cause ambivalence too. I'm not saying that Althea did not rape Oliver (I absolutely believe she did). I think that even though he was the aggressor and initiated sex and initiated sort of unpleasant bad sex, he was still taken advantage of. I think that his confusion about how to feel about it and his blithe getting over it is sort of right, as someone who was in that situation when I was too drunk to say no in college. There has been a ton of writing about how fucked up and wrong it was and how the author should have come down harder on rape, but I will say, what happens in the aftermath felt more real than anything I have read around this. Just pure ambivalence.

5. These characters are terrible and messy and wonderful and damn, it felt like, minus the disease, a snapshot of how I grew up.

Well, now I'm definitely interested. I'll look for it at the library.

I just started Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and it's amazing. No idea why I'm so late to the party, but so glad I'm reading it now.

I really liked Fun Home. I should re read because I can't remember it at all.

I have been in a state of ecstatic reading which has included:

• Both Jandy Nelson books (the one that one the Prinz was great).
• All of the Saga comics (I'm so late to that party, so don't worry, Amy).
• Lots of JoJo Moyes
• All the Truth In Me which was amazing.

Oh, I want to read the Jandy Nelson books, too. And, unrelatedly, Perseopolis, which I saw at the library when I picked up Fun Home. I also took out Wild, because I guess I'm in a memoir mood.

All of the Saga comics

Yeah, I love these too!

I just finished The Black Count, which was great, and I'm currently trying to slog my way through War and Peace. I say slog, because I'm fairly sure this is a shitty translation. I just don't know of a universally admired one.