Part twoooooo. Novella 8 A Woman’s Liberation 1994 4/5 Stars Another Hain novella, this one narrated by an “asset” or in our words, slave. In this particular society, these assets are total slaves to their masters through legal status, through training, and through their utter dependence to the system itself. Our narrator, used and abused by her masters, in this particular society, all women, she finds herself liberated by order of fiat by her new master. This presents a real problem. Like in much of […]
The Boy in the Bubble
For the second week in a row, I find myself plugging through a 450ish page recent novel. Like Pachinko from last week, this novel is touching and true, serious and complex, and rewarding throughout. Lucky Boy is the story of two different women barreling toward a shared destiny. Soli is a Mexican woman who crosses into the US for a chance at a new life. Along the way through both shared love and/or sexual violence, she finds herself pregnant. Despite the very limited good will of the […]
The Girl on the Hen
I am a sucker for a British thriller. And this one is pretty much ok. It’s perfectly suited to a non-taxing reading or reading event. There’s not a whole to say about depth or intrigue or anything else. But it’s competently-written and competently plotted, and won’t be a book for the ages, like I think Gone Girl is, but it could be the start of a perfectly solid career. If Ruth Ware stops writing books, she will likely be forgotten as a writer in due time. […]
I wanted this to not feel like BS but this felt like BS to me
So this is a book of poems, I think. For the most part these are word-associations on the objects in a room. For the most part they feel nonsensical. I am only able to use weasel words on this one because I don’t fully trust what my thoughts on these being poems. Also, I give this no rating because there are longer paragraph length poems that are more grounded and I enjoy them. I am not super trained in poetry. Most poetry I read now […]
Better than The Trap, worse than having not read it
Why is there a sub-genre of thrillers, and well anyone genre in a way, that just believes that every one is as much of a reader as the author is. Aha! I will write a book and it will work! Just think about how bad of a plan this would be for like basically anybody but a very small percentage of Americans. Now this book is British, but it can’t be that much better. AHA! The book is the thing, wherein I’ll find out the […]
Baseball and Brain Injuries!
This is a perfect little book for a high school student. It has a little bit of everything in it: a clear cut sense of right and wrong, exposure to a culture different from mainstream American (I am pretty mainstream American), precocious kids, and lovable and loving older people. It’s like a mix between Memento and A Beautiful Mind and a very one-sided version of Rashomon. Ok, not so much the last one, because instead, there’s not a lot of remembering going on. More so […]
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