Sometimes, a book shows up and you read it knowing full well it isn’t for you. This, friends, is one of those books. I’m participating in Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge again this year since I’m usually looking for an excuse to read something different and I have been trying to expand my tastes. One of the challenges, number one in fact, is to read a horror book. Fear was struck into my heart because I don’t even watch horror movies, let alone read horror […]
Couldn’t the whole book have been about the Monkey King?
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Fair warning, all. Over the next week or so (I can’t imagine it’s going to take me that much longer), I aim to read ALL the comic book trades and/or graphic novels that the husband and I own, and that I haven’t gotten round to reading. Actually, in all honesty, it’s not all of them, we have a ton of Hellblazer and Jack Kirby comics and all manner of things my husband owns that I have little to NO interest in, but there are 18 […]
“Better busy than bored…idle nerds become supervillains…”
The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You is a YA retelling of Much Ado About Nothing. The story is set in a competitive high school for geniuses. Beatrice and Benedick are now Trixie and Ben, but they still fight with the same fervor. Trixie is particularly fierce. Hero and Claudio are now Harper and Cornell, and their new relationship is being affected by their best friends’ inability to get along. The characters are all super smart and into comics and Doctor Who and all […]
A peace that blacked yer eye, a peace that split yer lip.
I think there are two ways to write about a not-first book in a series or trilogy: short and vague to avoid spoilers, or not. I’m gonna go with door number two because it’s impossible to write about this book without spoiling the resolution to the cliffhanger at the end of book one. So… If you don’t want to know what happens to Viola… … … … … … … … … Still here? Okay. This book just […]
The Quiet Heartbreak of Unreached Potential
In May 2012, Marina Keegan had a lot to look forward to. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale, had a play being produced at the New York International Fringe Festival, and lined up a job at The New Yorker. Just before she graduated, Marina wrote an essay titled “The Opposite of Loneliness.” Five days after receiving her diploma, Marina died in a car crash. She was 22 years old. “We’re so young. We’re so young.” Marina wrote in her final essay. “We’re twenty-two years […]
Ow, Todd?
This book had me like… And then… And then… You know what part. If you’ve read it, you know exactly what part that one is for, and that’s all I’m going to say about that. I don’t even know what to say about this book. It is everything I’m not usually into: there are fantasy elements, long journeys through rough terrain, a boy and his dog – fine stuff, but totally not my thing. It somehow wound up on my Goodreads to-read list, and I […]
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