Warning up front: this book centers around a girl in treatment for an eating disorder, so this may not be the right review/book for you to read. “The thing was, I needed to be owned. I needed someone to say, This girl is mine. That´s what family is for, but mine was almost gone. There was no one to claim me but Eden and my sickness. So I gave myself to both.” In Paperweight, our protagonist Stevie (which is my favorite new nickname for Stephanie) […]
Do not be a curly-haired blonde in a Kate Atkinson novel
So I read Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life last year, and despite the amazing reviews it got, I just did not like it. It was depressing, the main character keep dying over and over (which I know was the whole point, but gawd), and I just could not enjoy it. But I liked Atkinson’s style of writing, and Stephen King, of all people, recommends her over and over, so I thought I’d give it another shot. “Patricia embraces me on the station platform. ‘The past […]
“I’m frightened of the power I have given him over me and of how he will almost certainly abuse it, merely by not being fully aware he has it.”
So… I didn’t really like this one. But I feel bad about that, which is why I’ve waited a few days to post a review. “If anyone reads this when I have passed to the big bad beyond I shall be posthumorously embarrassed. I shall spend my entire afterlife blushing.” I know a lot of people had extraordinary feelings about this book because Carrie Fisher did just passed away. I, too, was very upset by her death as well as the death of her mother, […]
Glad I hopped on the German bandwagon
Okay, y’all convinced me to try this one with your stellar reviews (so.many.reviews), and thank you scootsa1000 for loaning me a copy! I’ve said before that I don’t really read romances novels, but like many of you said, Kulti isn’t really typical of the genre (or my impressions of the genre, anyway). And I do love Outlander, and romcoms, and Taylor Jenkins Reid, so it’s hardly surprising that I enjoyed this. I also read a lot of fanfic — like, if fanfic counted towards my CBR count I’d be a […]
Wicked Tales
The cover of this book has a quote from a review in Independent that sums up these nine short stories better than I ever could: “If this collection can be said to have a clear uniting theme, it might be that by a certain stage of life we’ve all got at least one person we would really like to kill”. That’s…pretty much perfect. “What is a stromatolite? he asks rhetorically, his eyes gleaming. The word comes from the Greek stroma, a mattress, coupled with the root word […]
“Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”
I read Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft when it first came out, about 15 years ago. Some of it stuck with me pretty vividly, mostly about his personal history — like when he talks about dropping a cinder-block full of wasps onto his foot at age three!! — but I’ve never reread it. When I saw that Overdrive had a copy of the audio-book read by King himself, I eagerly downloaded it. While some of the writing lessons aren’t quite as gripping the […]
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