Book mail is always the best mail! Many thanks to Allison O. for sending me the books below and for this gorgeous watercolor card. We have some seriously talented people in CBR. I love that both books have a feminist edge!
A book I apparently read while I was asleep
I think I liked this book? Maybe? Honestly, it’s been several weeks since I read it and I’m struggling to remember basic plot and characters. Which is its own sort of damning review in a way. Granted, I’m not great at remembering details of books, but they don’t usually get lost in my brain quite so quickly as this one seems to have. Strongly relying on the Goodreads summary for this one. Isaac Severy, mathematician and beloved grandfather dies in what appears to be a […]
Living in her white bread world
2.5 stars. Like I said in my last review, I read The Female Persuasion at the same time as Girls Burn Brighter and I think I liked The Female Persuasion less than I would have otherwise. It was like sitting by a pretty lamp while the sun is shining gloriously outside. Pleasant, but not exactly life changing. Or even week changing. Greer Kadetsky, a lower middle class white girl born to underachiever parents, finds herself at her safety school Freshman year. Not because she couldn’t […]
It was always burning, since the world’s been turning
4.5 stars. This book, this book, this book. Wowza. Whoever picked the title did a good job because this book lit a flame in me that still hasn’t gone out, even after moving on to other books. I did something I don’t usually do: read this audiobook and another audiobook at the same time. Not playing them at the same time obviously, but switching back and forth between them throughout my day. I can read more than one book at a time, they just usually […]
Good old fashioned detective work
I was very much in the mood for a good old fashioned detective novel where clues are unearthed piece by piece and slowly the mystery unfolds. Land of Shadows was the perfect read for that. Just a great detective slowly unraveling the threads of a crime to lead her back to the culprit. Elouise “Lou” Norton grew up poor in Los Angeles with her older sister and a hardworking mother. When her sister goes missing, both Lou and her mother’s lives are changed forever. When […]
Gotta be ruthless
First off, let’s give a huge round of applause to the cover designer. There have been some amazing covers in the last few years and this is one of the best. The book itself was also pretty enjoyable. It’s apparently in the works to be adapted as a movie by the same people who did Twilight and The Maze Runner. Not too shabby for a debut novel! Zélie Adebola is a young diviner, what her world calls a magi without power. Her world lost magic […]
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