I had the immense pleasure of watching the author speak. Obiama is an incredibly charming, humble and wellspoken man and it is with great regret that his debut novel is nothing more that mediocre. This is not necessarily a bad thing. The novel is warm and full of faults and tiny promises. But it is also a novel in dire need of editing. Too many strands of plot got in the way of the story, overly flourish prose stilted the pace, and somehow still made […]
A plotty book.
“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm” In order to read this book you probably shouldn’t know anything about it. I’d heard it was about a black woman time traveling back to the antebellum south and I thought it was about the coolest concept ever. Time travel, check. Moral dilemmas, check. An exploration of the consequences of time travel for non-white, non-male people? Super check! And the opening line was just simple, intriguing. I was dying to know more. So […]
For the ones who like books and believe in true love.
Just, so, damn, quaint. I really needed a book. A happy book. A quick book. The kind where you know they’ll kiss at the end and everything is all better. And I discovered this book through this really great review, seriously I’m not even going to try and top that. Click the link to read a great review. Keep reading here to find my random ramblings about the book. This is a book you make tea for. And you settle down with no great expectations. […]
If you’re nostalgic for the future…
I read this book in late nights, with tea and candles. I read it and I laugh and I cry and I get my hopes up and my dreams let down. You could say this book has it all, or at least you can say it has a lot. The Martian Chronicles are a series of interlinked stories as people from Earth arrive on Mars. It tells the story of humanity and its relation to Mars, to exploration, to ownership and to adventure. If you’re […]
Growing up in war – a surprisingly delightful read!
So people have been raving about this book for years and, as per usual, I am so late to the station that the train has already traversed the planet and come all the way back to drop its passengers off. It wasn’t until a friend literally pressed the book into my hand and commanded me to read it that I finally did. This time I should’ve gotten on the train sooner. So why didn’t I? Well people kept raving about the book, but every time […]
The ultimate popcorn-book. Is that a thing? It should be a thing.
I have an 80’s music playlist on Spotify. It is named “the greatest decade known to mankind”. This may have greatly influenced my review of Ready Player One. (And just like the book, my playlist is not religiously limited to the 80’s). I loved Ready Player One. I held it close, I stroked it, I stayed up all night to…read it. It is my soulmate, my dream, my future, my everything. Ahem. Sorry. It’s been awhile since I was truly excited about a book. So […]
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