It took me a while to really get into Susannah Cahalan’s autobiography, Brain on Fire, simply because I was listening to it as an audiobook when I started The Martian, also on audiobook. And while Cahalan’s mystery disease certainly fascinated me, it’s hard to compete with an astronaut stuck on Mars — even if he’s fictional. But once I devoted my full attention to her medical woes, she hooked me. “We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold […]
This book gave ME a head injury
Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD. What a stupid book. Seriously. At the end, you find out all that most of the main characters died in a fire, and my only thought was “good”. I did feel bad for the doggies, though. Backing up. In her 15th summer, something happened to Cadence on her family’s private island (get ready to meet some really rich people, by the way). Some kind of head injury that wiped out her memories of that summer, and has left her with terrible migraines. […]
Searching for Their Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Falling Together, by Marisa de los Santos, featured a handful of characters that I really liked, all chasing after a girl I could not have cared less about. As a result, my primary feeling when I finished reading was: “I’ll miss these people, but thank god that’s over”. “That no matter what happens, loving someone to the best of your ability is the right thing to do. It’s the only thing to do.” Will, Pen and Cat met in college and instantly became an inseparable trio — […]
Have you read this yet? READ IT
Finally, after a slew of annoying-ass protagonists, I read The Martian, starring one of the best main characters I’ve read in a long time. I like Mark Watney. Everyone does. Too bad his crewmates left him on Mars! “He’s stuck out there. He thinks he’s totally alone and that we all gave up on him. What kind of effect does that have on a man’s psychology?” He turned back to Venkat. “I wonder what he’s thinking right now.” LOG ENTRY: SOL 61 How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re […]
Running Away From the Past
Yet another book with a really unlikable female narrator. I feel like I’ve read a lot of these lately — anything by Gillian Flynn, The Girl on the Train, Dear Daughter, and so on. But just like all those novels, with their fucked up protagonists that make shitty decision after shitty decision, based on poor impulse control and messed up childhoods, I could not stop reading this damn book. Back in high school, Juliet Townsend was always right on the heels of her best friend and rival […]
Saving the Whales
Saving Crazy’s is the third novel in Karen Hood-Caddy’s young adult series, The Wild Place. Like the first two novels, it focuses on 13 year old Robin, whose family runs a wildlife sanctuary out of their barn. I think this book was probably the weakest of the three — a lot of it focuses on Robin and Zo-Zo (her best friend) fighting over a not-particularly-desirable boy named McCoy. But it’s still a cute little read. Besides the drama over McCoy, the novel’s main focus is environmental, of course. First […]
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