I remember reading this back in middle school, but I don’t remember it being quite so long, so maybe we didn’t read a different version? I liked it at the time though, and it definitely holds up well (especially considering it was written in 1959 — you’d probably never guess). “How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with […]
Oh, Jojo, I just can’t quit you
3.5 star rating for Paris for One (a novella); 2.5 star rating for the “other” stories). Paris for One is the story of Nell, 26 and unmarried (insert gasp!) but dating a rather useless boyfriend. After mentioning to him that she’s never been to Paris, he responds with “you should go one day, you’d love it), so she immediately buys plane tickets and books a hotel room for a weekend getaway. Unsurprisingly (at least, to everyone but Nell), useless boyfriend no shows, and she’s left to navigate the city […]
“My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.”
One of the reviews of this book (which I picked up, along with its sequel, for $2 at Half Price Books) on Goodreads says, “i have said it before and i will say it again: junkies are boring.” And blunt as that may be…it’s not totally inaccurate. I’ve read good books written by recovering addicts (Kristen Johnson’s Guts springs immediately to mind), but read enough and they begin to blur together. “What I’ve learnt – to my cost – on several occasions in my life, is […]
This book was so cool and so weird and I loved it
My main complaint about this book is that it’s too short. At about 350 pages, it could easily have been twice as long and still remained fascinating. “Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So we end up living in a state of perpetual regret, and is there anything worse? I built something that could actually eradicate regret. Let you find worlds where you made the right choice.” Jason Dessen, a college professor, and his artist […]
Here’s that good YA I’ve been searching for
Morgan survived something at her school last October the 15th. Since then, she’s been house-bound: afraid to even walk out the front door. She’s no longer communicating with her friends, goes to school online, and has completely stopped the competitive swimming that she used to live for. Her whole world is the inside of her apartment, along with her over-worked mother and her precious little brother. And then a boy moves in next door, and everything changes. “I think you’re a girl who went through a horrible thing, […]
The “Geek” part is good. The “Unrequited Love”…not so much
I’d be interested to see if Sarvenaz Tash has written anything else, because while I wasn’t a huge fan of the protagonist in this story, the background of New York Comic Con and Tash’s obvious love of all things nerdy made the rest of it pretty fun. “And who wouldn’t wish that? Certainly everyone here- dressed up as aliens, and wizards, and zombies, and superheroes- wants desperately to be inside a story, to be part of something more logical and meaningful than real life seems to […]
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