260 books. That’s an average of 5 books a week. I have a full-time job and two kids under the age of 5. I have no idea how I accomplished this… A lot of YA (and I read a bit more this year than I normally do — maybe that’s how I got through so many books) speaks to adults just as well as it does to teenagers. Books like Golden Boy or Lies We Tell Ourselves feel like almost any audience could connect with them. Other YA — The […]
Well, that was some cracked out weirdness
One of my friends recommended the Night Vale podcast to me a while back. I’m not much for podcasts (I know, I know) so I haven’t gotten around to listening to it. I might have to, though, after thoroughly enjoying this rather insane novel based on it. “She understood the world and her place in it. She understood nothing. The world and her place in it were nothing and she understood that.” Night Vale is a small desert town, occupied by ghosts, angels (although angels don’t […]
I’m going to spoil the fate of the dog, FYI
I’ve heard a lot about the Chaos Walking series, a dystopian fantasy set on another planet, but never got around to reading it. Audible recently had all 3 books for $4 each, plus a short story as a free download, so I got the whole series on audio (how could I resist?). “The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.” 12 (almost 13!) year old Todd Hewitt lives in Prentisstown, on New World. When he was just a baby, a […]
“I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable”
I had put off reading this one for a while, because I expected it to be depressing. It was sad, but not depressing — enough hopeful and wonderful things happen to balance out the parts that make you want to cry. “Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?…Yes, I do. I believe in ghosts….They’re the ones who haunt us. The ones who have left us behind.” Vivian Daly, a widow in her 90s, spend some time on an “orphan train” when she was a little girl. […]
Holy hell–you guys are so good at recommending books!
Well, consider me a Golden Boy pusher — this book was incredible, and I’ve already lent my copy away (read: forced it on my little sister). So, so good. “It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.” Max Walker has always been a good kid — good-looking, athletic, well-behaved. The kind of kid that adults and other kids his age love equally. But he has a secret — he’s […]
Well, I did like the elephant, at least
I had high hopes for this one — an interesting premise, and a different kind of setting than I’m used to (Mumbai). But between the characters that were more like caricatures, and the fact that you feel like you’re somehow missing some background (I checked more than once to make sure that the book was the first in the series, because it really feels like a story came before it), I ended up pretty disappointed. “On the day he was due to retire, Inspector Ashwin Chopra discovered that […]
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