LOGAN'S RUN (William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson) - March 24/20

This one started out pretty okay (I liked the initial descriptions of the futuristic world and of Logan's work), but once the main character runs, the book becomes dominated by long, tedious, and overly descriptive sequences. I was skimming a lot of this stuff, but the ending wasn't terrible. *1/2 out of ****

THE CALL OF THE WILD (Jack London) - March 11/20

Yeah, no, I hated this. It's all descriptive paragraphs and I really couldn't have cared less. * out of ****

CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS (Sally Rooney) - March 6/20

I feel like I was reading this forever, but nevertheless I kind of liked it. Rooney does a nice job of establishing the various characters, and the central character was especially quite vivid and compelling (especially when she got that uterus thing). But the book is generally pretty long-winded and sporadically pretentious, so I can't say I really loved it at any point. **1/2 out of ****