I bet you’ll see this one on a lot of best-of lists this year, if you haven’t already. It just came out, but it’s had a lot of hype — and it lives up to it! “She was charmed by the motions of trout. How they take their forms from the pressures of another world, the cold forge of water. Their drift, their mystery, the way they turn and let the current take them, take them, with passive grace. They turn again, tumbling like leaves, […]
“If you can stomach it, you’re invited to watch . . . as I eat myself to death.”
You remember that book Dumplin’ that came out last year, with the overweight Texas girl who yeah, dealt with some issues because of her weight (as well as other unrelated problems), but overall felt good about herself and her place in the world? Yeah, this book is nothing like that. “I hated thinking about death – not because I was afraid of it, but because, for some reason, every time I did, I felt this strange wave of sadness that death was actually so far off. Sometimes […]
Buffalo Soldiers in Italy
I’ve read a lot of books set during World War II, but only a couple that centered on Italy, and this is the first I’ve read that’s dealt specifically with the Army’s 92nd Division — aka, the Buffalo Soldiers. “To fight the enemy? Which enemy? The Germans? The Italians? The enemy was irony and truth and hypocrisy, that was the real enemy. That was the enemy that was killing him.” Towards the end of World War II, four soldiers with the 92nd Division get separated from […]
“Know yourself and go in swinging.”
I assumed Patrick Ness had written many, many YA books (because he’s really good at it) but I am so sad to find out that I’m terribly wrong — this is the last of his published works that I hadn’t read, and I’ve now read it. So cry a little tear for me. “You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there’s always more than this. There’s always something you don’t know.” More Than This is one of those books where the main character […]
Tears and goosebumps in under 200 pages
This book is creepy and sad in equal turns, and I read through the whole thing without putting it down once. I was pretty much a wreck by the end. “There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.” Some neat backstory on this one: an author named Siobhan Dowd came up with the original concept, and discussed it with Patrick Ness. When her death prevented completion of the project, Ness took the idea […]
Who would want to be the chosen one anyway?
My recommendation for The Rest of Us Just Live Here also came from that “awesome first lines” list (which must have been YA focused, now that I think of it). I’ve only ever read Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking series, which I loved up until the ending. But I went with this one based on its great premise, and I’m happy to say it delivered! “CHAPTER THE FIRST, in which the Messenger of the Immortals arrives in a surprising shape, looking for a permanent Vessell; and after being chased by […]
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