I’ve been away on vacation (or a series of vacations) for a little over a month, and have a large stack of books to review. But this one had to be first. The quiet horror of it will last with me for a long time. I first heard about The Hunger from Stephen King, who tweeted about it in March: THE HUNGER, by Alma Katsu: Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark. Of course, that shot it up to the […]
This book made me want to strangle a fictional character. But it also made me want to get in better shape and listen to lots of INXS, so fair trade, I guess?
Somehow, this book ended up on my kindle. I don’t know if someone sent me an ARC of it, or if it was a free download somewhere that I forgot about. I really don’t remember where it came from. All I know is that last week, on vacation, I needed a quick and easy read for the beach, so I downloaded it. I mean, I’ve been the class mom many times. I know how annoying it can be. Teachers can be set in their ways, […]
In which a favorite from my childhood stands up to an adult re-read.
When I was a kid, one of my favorite things to do on a summer day was to go with my mom to the New England Mobile Book Fair. The Book Fair was an amazing, enormous wholesaler Book warehouse in my town (Newton, MA), where you could look up books in an enormous database (or when I was really young, a HUGE book) that told you who the publisher was. The warehouse was set up by publisher, and all of the books cost less than […]
I’m pissed I didn’t like this more.
I’ve been sitting on this review for quite a while, not 100% sure what I wanted to say about this book. I was only about half finished with it during our book club discussion, but reading all of the comments, I knew I just didn’t feel as strongly about this book as most of you did. And I was pissed. I really wanted to love this. I was so fired up to read it. But maybe there was just too much hype, that when I […]
“If blood inside you is on the inside of someone else, you never want to see it outside of them.”
Another brilliant book told in verse (similar to those by Kwame Alexander), Long Way Down takes place in a single elevator ride over 60 seconds. I was doubtful that this could be pulled off successfully, but my god, what Jason Reynolds does here is extraordinarily effective. Will is mourning the sudden shooting death of his brother, Shawn. According to “the rules” of his neighborhood, Will must now plan to take his brother’s gun and shoot the boy who he thinks killed his brother. THE RULES […]
This is a fake book by a fictional character, which I don’t completely understand, but I’m totally on board.
Does anyone else watch the extremely binge-worthy Younger? I didn’t give it a chance at first, mostly because it’s on TVLand, which pretty much makes me think of old Taxi reruns and that Betty White sitcom Hot in Cleveland. As much as I adore Sutton Foster, I just assumed it was dumb. My tv critic friend convinced me otherwise. Her tweets about how funny and charming this show was made me realize I was missing out. So on a trip to Cape Cod last summer, […]
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