I’ve never had any interest in reading it until this post! I might actually give it go now.

Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCrackin. I heard a review on NPR and thought it sounded like a fun, quirky, New England book which I always love as a New Englander. But I very quicky found it was trying way too hard to be quirky so much so that it was difficult to follow. And I’m generally a fan of magical realism so I have a high tolerance for that but yeeesh.

Go Ask Alice is so bad it’s funny. I love how she gets addicted to acid (never heard of anyone being addicted to acid outside this book) before she even tries weed for the first time.