I read my first Jennifer McMahon book (The Winter People) on my last trip, so how nice that The Night Sister came available at the library just before this one. Like The Winter People, The Night Sister expertly combines creepy surroundings with unhappy people in unhappy towns, creating an incredible environment for horror. “For some people, Rose, it’s easier to pretend the things that frighten us most don’t exist at all.” In the 1950s, the Tower Hotel (named for the huge tower the founder built in the back) […]
This one adds up! (hyuck hyuck)
This was probably one of the most romcom-y books that Jojo Moyes has written (or that I’ve read, anyway) and I will admit I loved every sweet minute of it. “The law of probability combined with the law of large numbers states that to beat the odds, sometimes you have to repeat an event an increasing number of times in order to get you to the outcome you desire. The more you do, the closer you get. Or… basically, sometimes you just have to keep […]
He casts quite the shadow
So I was already a leeeetle behind on my reviews, then I went on a trip where I ended up spending about 12 cumulative hours in an airport or on a plane, and finished four more books. So now I’m really behind, and about to flood the main page in an effort to catch up. Apologies! First up: the audiobook I finished prior to leaving town. I’ve been working my way through Orson Scott Card’s Shadow Series, which focuses on the genetically-modified military commander, Bean, whose genes have granted […]
Horror at its finest
I don’t think I’ve ever actually read The Haunting of Hill House before. I have, however, watched the movie version from the 90s one million times, due to equally strong crushes on Owen Wilson & Catherine Zeta-Jones (see also: repeat viewings of The Mask of Zorro, which I rewatched recently in a fit of nostalgia and discovered to be a truly horrible movie). Anyway, someone on here reviewed another Shirley Jackson novel (the one about the castle), so I went to the library and put her whole oeuvre on hold — The […]
Secrets, Lies & Whales
Like Caitlin_D said, this one takes a bit to get going, but Jojo definitely gets her claws in you. I flew through the last 100 pages, dying to know how this one ended. “Look out at the sea for long enough, at its moods and frenzies, at its beauties and terrors, and you’ll have all the stories you need— of love and danger, and about what life lands in your nets. And the fact that sometimes it’s not your hand on the tiller, and you […]
“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
Malala Yousafzai is an extraordinary young lady — brave, intelligent, well-spoken and determined to provide the basic human right of education to as many people as possible. She also likes to read the Twilight books and do her hair. I am Malala does an incredible job of introducing not just the activist Malala, but the real person as well. “Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow.” Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.” Yes, Malala is the […]
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