I enjoyed Karin Slaughter’s The Good Daughter so checked out ‘Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes’ on Overdrive as a precursor to my reading Pretty Girls (I have been hovering on the top of the library wait-list for weeks, wth PPL!) even though the reviews indicated it was a pretty unnecessary prequel. While I haven’t read Pretty Girls (yet) I can see why the general consensus was … why? Julia Carroll is a (VERY) pretty girl attending school to be a journalist in Athens, Georgia; a news story about a missing girl catches […]
“Buffering is that time you spend waiting for the pixels of your life to crystallize into a clearer picture”
“Buffering is that time you spend waiting for the pixels of your life to crystallize into a clearer picture; it’s a time of reflection, a time of pause, a time for regaining your composure or readjusting your course. We all have a limited amount of mental and emotional bandwidth, and some of life’s episodes take a long time to fully load.” I don’t YouTube. I haven’t spent much time on the various channels put together by “Content Creators” like Hannah Hart but I do respect […]
“I guess we’re almost friends now, or as friendly as you can get when you’re not one hundred percent sure the other person isn’t framing you for murder.”
My sister and I tend to Snapchat pictures of books we’re reading with “I’m bringing this for you to read next time I see you” to one another which has gotten me in the habit of reading books I don’t know the synopsis of going in. One of Us is Lying is one of those books. I worried at first that this was going to be a blatant rip off of The Breakfast Club “She’s a princess and you’re a jock,” he says. He thrusts his chin toward […]
“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”
There are a lot of layers involved in Ng’s award winning novel and Little Fires Everywhere employs one of my least favorite tricks- starting in the present with the climatic event before restarting at the true beginning of the story. Mrs. Richardson, a wealthy journalist in the Utopian town of Shaker Heights, wakes up to her house in flames; she was sleeping in after a rough day involving her tenant leaving the apartment she rented and the reader is treated to the events that led to both the […]
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
Saumensch I don’t know how I managed to go so long without reading The Book Thief but it was worth the wait. I thought I would be reading an uplifting story of a young woman who found comfort in the written word while the world crumbled around her but instead I got sucker punched in the feels. While I have some minor quibbles, namely the flash forwarding to the characters’
But why did the font keep changing?
W. Kamau Bell is someone whose name I immediately recognized but I couldn’t place him in a single thing I had actually seen. I didn’t have FX when Totally Biased was on in 2012 and I once again don’t have cable so I haven’t seen (or, honestly, heard of) United Shades of America on CNN but I knew the name so I picked up the book. Awkward Thoughts is a pretty good balance between humor and seriousness. It is mostly a collection of essays that loosely tie together to create a […]
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