I’m woefully behind in my reviews, and so I’ve had some time and space apart from this novel, and I have to tell you, I still don’t know what to think. I can’t tell if I loved it for all of its gothic-ness, or I hated it for all of its horrible characters. So I’m giving it three stars, because that feels like a solidly middle-of-the-pack recommendation, but if you pick this up, know going in to it that you might get to the end […]
This book should be called DUNCE Road
Oh, Jane. I had such high hopes for you after reading Family Pictures, so I read Mr. Maybe, which wasn’t a home run with me, but I wanted to give you another chance. But I think I might have to break up with you after reading this. You nearly did me in. Plus? Halfway through I realized I’d read this before but I still read it again, and now I’m a little mad at myself. Dune Road is the story of middle-aged Kit, who is […]
“I didn’t need to die for him to kill me.”
It wasn’t until I went to Amazon to read some reviews of This Is How It Ends that I realized that the entire book takes place over 54 minutes. That’s it. Just 54 minutes of heart-racing adrenaline, tears, anger, sadness, fear, disgust, terror, and laughter. At 10 am on a sunny morning in January, the principal of Opportunity High School in Opportunity, Alabama, finishes her beginning of the semester speech. It’s the same speech each year, and so a senior named Tomas and his friend […]
“It’s a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks.”
In fact, high school is where we are first introduced to the basic existential question of life: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad? I downloaded Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl from the library a few weeks ago. It’s the “other book” about kids with cancer and hasn’t been discussed with quite as much fervor or passion as The Book. Confession time: I still haven’t read The Fault in our Stars. I love you, John Greene, but I […]
How to achieve “closure” with great “finesse”
I downloaded Mockingbird from the library the other day, not really realizing that it was a YA book – actually it’s a middle grade book – until I was in to it, and by then, I was in to it, and couldn’t put it down. In fact, I finished it within a couple of days, even sneaking in a few minutes here and there at work. It grabbed me from the first page and didn’t let go. It also broke my heart. Ten year old […]
Not Exactly Irresistible
Sometimes, a girl just needs a trashy romance novel on a rainy night, but I’m not sure this was the trashy romance novel I needed. The storyline was okay, I suppose. Young, fiercely independent single mom Elissa Towers lives with her young daughter Zoe, making it on her own with no family to help, save for her elderly neighbor, who helps watch Zoe while Elissa works. Elissa has sworn off men until Zoe is out of the house, but then former U.S. Marine Walker Buchanan […]
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