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Super blah, but I still got choked up at the end

The Light Between The Oceans by M. L. Stedman

May 15, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

The Light Between the Oceans kept popping up as “recommended” for me so I finally gave in and read it. And it’s not a bad book, it’s just not my kind of book. The circumstances and setting are fascinating but ultimately I was more than happy to move on to my next read. Good for someone, not for me. The primary characters of this book are a lighthouse keeper, Tom, and his young wife, Isabelle. He has taken the posting on Janus Island, a hundred […]

A delightful read for at home by yourself

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

May 15, 2019 by lowercasesee 7 Comments

This book has been much reviewed here over at CBR and I probably won’t be adding much except: don’t read this at work. This book does not fade to black and you will feel weird about it. This is a book for reading at home while your partner is out of town and you are curled up on the couch with a glass of wine. That is the perfect scenario for The Kiss Quotient. The plot boils down to – Stella is 30 years old, professional […]

This series just keeps getting better

Tiamat's Wrath by James S. A. Corey

May 13, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

I have a whole bunch of books in my back log that I need to review (another trip!) but I wanted to jump on this one FIRST because REASONS. And they are spoilery reasons, not just for this book but for Endgame. So I’ll do some regular chit-chat first and push all those spoilers down below the jump. Yeah? I love these books more and more and beyond words. The world building is just so complete and I can’t get past how engaging and enthralling it […]

An odd little wonder

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

April 24, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

Convenience Store Woman is a small story both in that it is about a single (individual) woman in the bustling metropolis of Tokyo and it’s also less than two hundred pages. I read it in a single evening in a single sitting, so fast my rear end barely had time to fall asleep. I was never entirely sure what I was reading, but I also didn’t mind my own confusion. The main character, Keiko, has worked at a local convenience store for eighteen years, half […]

Privilege, trauma, survival, and sleepaway camp

The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu

April 24, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

I sunk deeply into this book from the get-go because I am myself a former camper. Growing up, I spent summer after summer at a four-week-long sleepaway camp in the Texas Hill Country and that will never not partially define me. The weird traditions, the songs, the dining hall, the counselors who maybe hung on a little too long, that all hits me right where I live. So when it came to The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, I honesty could have spent more time in […]

They’re not bad, they just are

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Seige and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

April 18, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

I recognized the cover and remembered an old roommate of mine had these books and I think I borrowed and read at least one? But as I finally cracked open the trilogy for myself nothing felt familiar so maybe I just saw the cover a lot. I read Bardugo other series, set in the same broad universe, and was very impressed with how she told a new and very different story. I also want to go re-read Six of Crows, which I remember being better. But it […]

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