Clemantine Wamariya grew up the daughter of a wealthy businessman and a doting mother in Kigali, Rwanda but at age 6 she and her teenage sister, Claire, were sent to live with their grandmother to avoid the encroaching “conflict.” When the “conflict” came to their grandmother’s countryside farm the girls uprooted themselves again, spending the next 6 years are refugees across the African continent. The “conflict” Clemantine and Claire were fleeing was the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Claire’s solution to escaping all that was to make money, […]
How Peculiar
Last month I read Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and this month I read its sequels Hollow City and Library of Souls which were not quite as strong as their predecessor but still relatively enjoyable for YA fantasy. **Spoilers for Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children below** “I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn’t to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.” So when we left Jacob Portman and […]
Cannon Book Club: Kindred
I tend to listen to an audio-book while driving, read a paperback or thin hardcover on my lunch break and then save thicker hardcover books for at home. My copy of Kindred was a paperback so it was on the lunch rotation which meant it took me a lot longer to read than it deserved. At this point I think we all know the gist of Butler’s Kindred but here is a quickie synopsis for the lone person who missed all the other reviews and/or Book Club discussion. […]
Three potentially good stories smashed into one mediocre novel
“She would say that we create our own reality-that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe.” Daisy and Violet Shramm are identical twin sisters who grew up in St. Louis to an ambivalent mother and a much older father. They are also psychic. In the more present day Daisy, now going by Kate, is a stay at home mom to two young kids and the wife of a college professor, Jeremy Tucker, who teaches geology at the local university. She has renounced her […]
“I kind of wonder what it feels like to love something so much that you’re even happy to fail at it.”
I was thrilled to hear Julie Murphy wrote a sequel to Dumplin’ and picked up a copy as soon as my library got it in. I definitely had high expectations but, unfortunately, I also had very little knowledge about what the sequel was about so I was a bit let down to realize Willlowdean was relegated to a barely mentioned side character. If you are a big fan of Dumplin’ then I recommend going into Puddin’ with the mindset that it is not a sequel but rather its own standalone novel that […]
Y’all, Reese Witherspoon has a book club!
It’s hard to believe that the girl from Cruel Intentions and Sweet Home Alabama* would grow into a feminist, taste making mogul but here were are and Reese Witherspoon is one of my favorite people to watch for their next move. She has optioned countless books into film and television projects, many I’ve already read & loved, and I seek out a lot of her recommendations. All of this is to say I was thrilled to discover Reese has an Instagram book club! May’s book club selection was Curtis Sittenfeld’s You […]
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