Okay, book 3. This is the last summer before the girls go off to college, but of course they don’t spend it together because everybody has their own thing going on. “How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it […]
“But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.”
Yes I’m still reading these sappy ass books. “The word friends doesn’t seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.” So the second summer of The Sisterhood allows the girls to split up into their own four little storylines again, with intermittent mingling as time progresses. Bridget goes to Alabama to hunt down her grandmother. Carmen gets jealous because her mom has started dating. Tibby’s making a movie that […]
“A True-Life Novel”
This is undoubtedly one of the best memoirs I’ve ever read. And I have read a lot of memoirs! It helps that Jeannette Walls is incredibly talented, as I already knew from having read The Glass Castle and The Silver Star. But her subject here is really what makes this book stand apart from so many others. “You can’t prepare for everything life’s going to throw at you. And you can’t avoid danger. It’s there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit […]
“All secrets lead back to the big secret. To give one thing away means to give everything away.”
Okay, so…this book was really not very good. In fact it was sort of ridiculously bad. But it was enjoyably so. I read the first half of it while getting a pedicure, and it was absolutely perfect for that sort of activity, if that tells you anything. “Easy things are worthless… It’s the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for…If we don’t fight other people’s curses, what are we left with? Just a swift fall to the earth, and where’s the […]
“There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death.”
Remember my New Year’s resolution to stay current on my reviews? Yeah. This is review number 43 and I’ve finished 53 books so far in 2017. Naughty Badkittyuno…. So a lot of other people have reviewed this anthology, and I am firmly in the camp of those who loved loved loved it. Neil Gaiman can’t really do any wrong in my book anyway, but I thought this collection was particularly enjoyable. I’m not overly familiar with Norse mythology, beyond what I’ve learned through American Gods, […]
My Big Fat Fabulous Life
This was definitely not the light and funny comedy memoir I was expecting, but I urge you to read it anyway. Even if you have no idea who Whitney Thorpe is (like me) or refuse to watch reality TV on TLC (like me), you will probably get something out of it. The book basically covers two main concepts: the times that Whitney struggled with her weight, and how she’s learned to accept to love herself. Her problems with her self perception of her weight began when […]
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