This was one of the longest books I have read in a while, and it can be a bit of a slog. The writing twist does help to keep things fresh but overall the book is a beating because it just never ends. 800+ pages on this bad boy and you feel every one of them. Paul Auster uses these way too many pages to tell the story of young Archie Ferguson growing up in the 1960s, and he tells it four different times in […]
The spirits that live inside us
I love me some good magical realism, as nebulous a genre as that is and this definitely falls into the “good” category. Unfortunately not as memorable as I’d like it to be, though I did read this at an interesting time (big family gathering + sad memorial service = not a lot of brain space for books). Freshwater centers on a young Nigerian woman named Ada though in this story, even in her own body, she is not the sole protagonist. Emezi has given voice […]
I want this book to end up like Gatsby
I’m temporarily skipping two reviews I owe y’all because I need this book closed and behind me just as fast as possible. The Golden House may have started a little interesting, teasing the hidden history of a family trying to start fresh, but it started to go downhill fast and then just wallowed at the bottom. It’s another one of those books that doesn’t feel the need to use full quotations or breaks for dialogue and thinks it’s artsy. At one point, a character is trying […]
Book 1, Take 2
Lesbehonest, this one is so much just The Palace Job with a new cover. For goodness sakes, our ragtag gang of intrepid adventurers is going after the exact same magical McGuffin. But I’m going to let him get away with it because the romp is just so much gosh darned fun. I do struggle a bit with remembering where the previous book ends and this one begins but that’s okay. We’re back with Loch and co and war can only be avoided if she can steal […]
Questing, for old folks
Grammar is very important. Without that comma, my title is about looking for senior citizens. With it, those selfsame senior can go on an adventure. And what a wonderful adventure! Unfortunately for all of us, I have forgotten the names of the characters involved but that’s okay. Looking back on my old reviews, I rarely really include character names anyway! This book is set in roughly Arthurian England, there’s even mention of one of his knights. The Buried Giant is also stylistically similar to so much […]
An alternate history I hadn’t seen before
I’m almost caught up! And I’m reading a SUPER long book so I’ll stay caught up. Mothership readers remember than HBO was at one point considering a show called Confederate (helmed by the white-savior-narrative peddlers of Game of Thrones, ugh) that would tell the story of an alternate history of the U.S., a what if the South had won. Underground Airlines has a different alternate history to propose – what if the war had never really been fought, but a truly terrible compromise reached instead? In this history, […]
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