Danielle > Recent Status Updates

A STROKE OF GOOD FORTUNE - 5 stars : Climbing the stairs to your fourth-floor walk-up is the perfect time for an existential crisis. Ask me how I know.

ENOCH AND THE GORILLA - 5 stars : Taking “you can be anything you want to be when you grow up” to new levels.

THE TRAIN - 2.5 stars : People we meet on public transportation.

THE PEELER - 3 stars : Catholic guilt spares no one.

THE HEART OF THE PARK - 3.5 stars : Friends don’t let friends be creepy at the public pool.

THE CROP - 4 stars : Put this in the Encyclopedia Britannica next to “self-insert”.

THE TURKEY - 4 stars : Cue the maniacal laughter of an 11 year old after they curse in front of mom and dad for the first time.

THE GERANIUM - 3 stars : Racist elderly man has positive interaction with a Black man, causing an existential crisis. Tale as old as time.

THE BARBER - 4 stars : You could’ve told me this was written in 2016, or 2020, or 2024, and I would’ve believed you.

WILDCAT - 2 stars : I, too, appreciate the smell of cat. But I also didn’t really get this one.

Every character is horrible and it’s fantastic.

Oh I have so many thoughts.

Her mom gives me the ick.

Why do I do this to myself?

I’m sensing what might be coming and I don’t feel good about it. Not good at all.

Somebody sedate me.

Starting another book ASAP tonight to ward off the nightmares

This is painful.

This book is a drug.

Devouring again as I am seated for the movie.

Tracking to be my favorite romance…ever? Then he drops the dreaded “cutie”. Can one recover from the ick?