I waited for months for this to come out, spent another month on the on-hold list at my library, devoured the whole thing in 48 hours and insisted on returning it immediately for the next Stephen King fan. So…you’re not going to get an unbiased review here. “It’s about how some people carelessly squander what others would sell their souls to have: a healthy, pain-free body. And why? Because they’re too blind, too emotionally scarred, or too self-involved to see past the earth’s dark curve […]
Dancing Girls
I started tackling Margaret Atwood’s oeuvre a couple years ago — I think the first one I read was Alias Grace, and since then I’ve read 17 of her books. Every time I go to Half Price to see if there’s anything new (to me), and I’m starting to run out! Dancing Girls is a short story collection (her first one, in fact), and while it wasn’t one of the better Atwood books that I’ve read, it was still pretty good. “Everyone thinks writers must know more […]
“I feel it – I’ve been living in a world, but what I have is a universe”
Caitlin_D wrote a review for this one like, 24 hours after I picked it up from the library. Her review was pretty meh, but I already had the book so I figured I might as well read it. And I felt pretty meh about it, too. “I’m ready to lose myself, but I’m not ready to lose you. I’m ready to find myself, But I’m not ready for you to know what I find.” You Know Me Well alternates between two teenage narrators: Kate, who’s about […]
Y’all are a messed up group and I love you
I never would have picked this one up without y’all’s reviews, which all basically said: this book was weird and violent but I think I liked it? Expandingbookshelf, I believe your review finally tipped me over the edge. So I read it, and I’m here to say: this book was weird and violent but I’m pretty sure liked it. “For all intents and purposes, the power of the Library is infinite. Tonight we’re going to settle who inherits control of reality.” Carolyn and her fellow Librarians work […]
“What would that be like? To wake up one morning and be normal?”
This book tackles some serious mental health issues, and does so with an interesting cast of characters. Still, I found it a bit lacking plot-wise, with much more emphasis on the teenagers-in-love than I really needed. “I believe that I am unclean and will harm those I care about the most and that there is too much noise in my head and that I am so goddamned tired.” Adam attends group therapy in Room 13B, along with several other teenagers suffering with OCD. Their therapist […]
“Here on Coney Island, we learn to take each other as we are.”
Magruder’s Curiosity Cabinet, set on Coney Island in 1904, has quite the cast of characters — funny, freaky folk who make their living off the “Dozens” (as in, “Dime a”) who come to gawk at them every day. But when a serious illness hits the island, the Unusuals (as they call themselves) discover just how dangerous it can be to live on the fringes of society — and how important it is to band together. And for little Kitty Hayward, visiting from England and suddenly without a family, […]
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