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I am feeling a little peculiar

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

July 7, 2021 by The Book Omnivore 2 Comments

This post is brought to you by a light fever, courtesy of the first dose of the Covid vaccine so if it feels like I am rambling, it is because I am. I am probably one of the last people to read this book but in case you are too, here’s a summary: 16 year old Jacob lives an ordinary, boring life. He was brought up on his grandfather’s seemingly tall tales about his extraordinary life and all the peculiar friends he had growing up, […]

Run, Molly, run

All our shimmering skies by Trent Dalton

July 5, 2021 by The Book Omnivore 2 Comments

All our shimmering skies was beautiful. The descriptions were vivid, the world described alive with colour and feeling and trauma and the watchful eye of a Superego-like sky. The story of Molly, the 12 year old gravedigger’s daughter who thinks her heart is turning to stone because her family is cursed, takes place in Darwin, Australia and it follows the structure of a good old-fashioned quest: a magical object, a walkabout, a wizard, a curse and the struggle to reverse the curse. Molly is not […]

All systems meh

All systems red by Martha Wells

June 26, 2021 by The Book Omnivore 9 Comments

I believe All systems red is a favourite around these parts. It was one of the reasons I picked it up to begin with. Which makes this a hard review to write, because I didn’t love it like a lot of you did. Spoilers ahoy. Murderbot is a SecUnit, but it (she? he?) has hacked the governor module that’s supposed to, erm, govern it. So, as much as its current mission (to protect a group of people who are collecting data on another planet) will […]

Abandon hope all ye who enter here

When darkness loves us by Elisabeth Engstrom

June 24, 2021 by The Book Omnivore Leave a Comment

The first thing you need to know about When darkness loves us is that it comprises of two short stories. The second thing you need to know about it is that these are not happy stories. The first story (from which the book takes its title) is about Sally Ann Hixson. Sally Ann is (only) sixteen and recently married (yep – the book was written back in 1985, but…still). Her husband works at Sally Ann’s parents’ farm trying to save enough money so that they […]

How to suck the soul out of running

Feet in the Clouds: A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession by Richard Askwith

June 22, 2021 by The Book Omnivore 5 Comments

This was not a good book, no matter what Goodreads tells you. It had its good moments, but on the whole it was a dull, shallow, disjointed, problematic book. As evidenced by the fact that it took me 3 weeks to fight my way through it. I don’t even know how to begin to describe it because I am not sure what the author’s purpose was. Parts of the book present the history of fell running in the UK. Parts of it are biographical in […]

How to use your embroidery needle as a weapon in the war against the status quo

A single thread by Tracy Chevalier

June 7, 2021 by The Book Omnivore Leave a Comment

Women in the 1930s had very little say in what they could do with their lives. They were expected to get married, have children, take care of their parents. They were givers. The only power they could yield was through gossip, policing each other in case one of them dared step outside the boundaries set by the patriarchy. Violet is a 38 year old woman, single and without any real prospect for happiness as defined by those boundaries. She relocates away from her suffocating, tyrant […]

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