Alice Hoffman’s The Museum of Extraordinary Things tells the story of Coralie, a “mermaid” girl forced to perform in her father’s freak show on Coney Island, and Eddie, who made his living for years by finding people, and has been tasked to find another young girl after a horrible disaster. Coralie and Eddie meet, and things change forever. “You are the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all we needed. For that, and for a thousand […]
The BAD Nurse
Charlie Cullen, the titular “Good Nurse”, is the most prolific serial killer that New Jersey’s ever produced, and possibly the most prolific serial killer in the history of the United States. Through interviews with police officers, family members, former co-workers and Cullen himself, Charles Graeber puts together the story of this horrifying man. “Access to the vulnerable allowed him to manifest death without dying. He’d learned to kill himself by proxy.” Cullen spent 16 years of his nursing career randomly killing patients in a variety of hospitals […]
Watching the world go by
This is one of those books where you’ll figure “it” out about halfway through — but you’ll be so enthralled that you’ll still devour the second half of the book, just to see if you were right! “A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told” First of all, this is not a book where you’re going to be particularly fond of […]
Less Memoir, Most Mystery
Do not read Not My Father’s Son with the expectation of hearing about Alan Cumming’s fabulous life, and all the amazing stuff he gets to do. This focuses mainly on his childhood, which was incredibly shitty. He shifts focuses between his upbringing, and his experience with the TV show Who Do You Think You Are? as an adult, which afforded him the opportunity to find out all sorts of new information about his family. In fact, other than the fact that a non-celeb wouldn’t be featured on this […]
Another Sweet Story About the Wild Place
The Truth About Brave is Karen Hood-Caddy’s sequel to Howl, which I read a couple weeks ago. In Howl, 12 year old Robin loses her mother, so her family moves in with her grandmother to start over. Robin, along with her grandmother, little brother and two friends, open a wildlife rescue called the Wild Place. In The Truth About Brave, Robin’s best friend has started a crusade against factory farms — and Robin has to decide if she’s bold enough to join her. These are sweet little books, which deal with all sorts of pre-teen […]
Good book with an obnoxious narrator
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, which has very little, really, to do with a dying girl (she’s a catalyst, and an audience, but that’s about it) has one of the most obnoxious narrators I’ve ever read. He’s so self-deprecating and whiny that I wanted to strangle him. I actually really enjoyed the book, but the fact that he kept cutting in with “If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you” — this […]
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