Bingo Square: Listicles. (From this list. Bonus points for telling me Morgan Matson has a new book out too.) The last humans to leave Earth when the planet was dying are known as Exodans. They were carried away by the Fleet, a large group of spacecrafts able to sustain their lives for centuries, until they could find a habitable planet on which to settle. Instead, they found alien life, and were eventually welcomed into the Galactic Commons – a sort of alien UN. Now able […]
Fall in love whenever you can
Bingo square: Cannonballer Says! Caitlin_D’s review is here. In the 1600s, Maria Owens fell in love with the wrong man. Left desolate and with child, her line was doomed by her curse – that those who fall in love with an Owens will be ruined. Siblings Franny, Jet and Vincent come of age in the 1960s, hardly aware of their heritage – that they come from a long line of witches. But they know they are different, and they thwart their mother’s rules: No walking […]
“A Canadian kind of ‘eh?’ rather than a Yorkshire one”
Bingo Square: Home, Something, Home Ruby Lennox narrates the story of her life from the moment of conception – “I exist!” and invites the reader into her family. There’s cold matriarch Bunty, barely there father George, oldest sister Patricia (not much of a sense of humour), and attention-seeking middle child, Gillian. Along with this main story there are ‘footnotes’, chapters that follow Ruby’s that add a little more history and backstory to her family, often centred on specific events or objects (a button in a […]
Standing Still
Bingo Square: So Shiny! Picking up after Me Before You and After You, Still Me finds Louisa Clark in New York, working as an assistant for the Gopnik family. Specifically, Lou is there to help Agnes Gopnik, the much younger (very unhappy) second wife of Leonard Gopnik. She handles Agnes’s schedule, attends swanky events with her, and keeps her secrets. They’re friends you see. Lou also attracts other ‘friendly’ attention in the form of Josh, a man who looks strikingly similar to someone Lou loved […]
We have to keep talking
Bingo Square: The Book Was Better? I recently watched the TV series Waco, starring Taylor Kitsch as David Koresh and Michael Shannon as Gary Noesner, the FBI negotiator at the 1993 siege. It was an excellent series which made me realise how little I knew about the event, and how bad it was. The show was based on Noesner’s book, Stalling for Time, and also an account by a survivor, David Thibodeaux’s Waco: A Survivor’s Story. I’d been hoping to read and review both for […]
Your typical patriarchal nightmare
Bingo square: Throwback Thursday 16 year old Ann Burden is alone in the world. Her valley has miraculously survived a world ending event; touched on all sides by deadness and poisoned air, she has no way to leave or any idea if others have survived. Then one day a man appears in the distance, heading for her sanctuary. He has on a suit that protects him and pulls a wagon of supplies. Ann chooses to hide in a cave near her home before he arrives, […]
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