Peggy Hillcoat is the daughter of a famous German concert pianist and an English survivalist, who despite the disapproval of his wife keeps stockpiling supplies in a shelter in their garden and preparing for the worst. Only eight years old, she doesn’t question what is happening when her father takes her away from their big house in London while her mother is away on tour. He takes her to the German countryside, to a delapitated cabin remote in the mountains, explaining that this is their […]
Who knew studying linguistics could be so dangerous?
Daniel Everett first began to live among the Pirahã people of the Amazon in 1977, when he and his family were sent on behalf of the Summer Institute of Linguistics to study the Pirahã’s language in order to translate the Bible and convert them to Christianity. He ended up learning not only their language, but gathered insights about their way of life that eventually led to his renunciation of Christianity and 20 years living among this primitive tribe. “They have no craving for truth as a transcendental reality. Indeed, […]
“Words are free, she tried to say, and she appropriated them; they were all hers.”
Like Margaret Atwood, I didn’t discover Isabel Allende until a few years ago, but once I did I immediately started searching for her books every time I hit Half Price Books. Eva Luna, one of her earlier novels (1987) wasn’t my favorite of hers, but still a great example of her beautiful way with words. This woman can create a backstory for a character better than just about anyone I can think of — her characters rarely seem to do anything as far as plot goes, but the […]
Well written thriller with a protagonist worth rooting for!
With a title like The Woman in Cabin 10, this novel already brought to mind all of the “girl” thrillers we’ve had lately — Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, The Luckiest Girl Alive, etc — which all have messy, unlikable woman as protagonists. So when The Woman in Cabin 10 begins with our main character waking up drunk and fuzzy-headed in the middle of the night, I may have let out an audible sigh. BUT I was pleasantly surprised with this one, which stars a flawed but likable woman […]
This one starts decently but then…it gets worse
You can usually tell when an author has a small but rabid following, when Goodreads has their rating insanely high (4.51 in this case — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone has a 4.42) but less than one hundred reviews. That should have been a big clue to me, in addition to the fact that I have never heard of YouTube star Shane Dawson (I promise I’m not super old — just kind of old). But whatever — Overdrive recommended it, and at least it was short? […]
“You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.”
I am a huge fan of Neil Gaiman, and have read pretty much everything he’s ever written. Well, now I really feel like I’ve read everything — this collection of every speech he’s ever given, every introduction he’s ever written, along with multiple interviews from his journalist days feels pretty inclusive. It’s not the kind of book you can sit down and read all at once, but over the course of a week or so, it’s a nice glimpse into a lot of things that Gaiman […]
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