I completely missed reviewing this book when I completed it a couple of weeks ago, which is a shame because it was a good read from an author that I’m really liking right now. So my apologies to Marisa de los Santos — your book is definitely worth a review! Love Walked In is definitely fluff, but it’s well-written fluff starring a couple of impressive ladies, so I highly recommend it to people who enjoy that sort of thing! “There’s a kind of holiness to love, requited […]
This book made me happy, then not
For those of you who enjoy YA fiction, I would definitely recommend this one. There’s a slight science fiction element to it, but really, it’s a coming of age story and it’s fantastic. “Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it.” Aaron Soto has had a tough […]
A Spiritual Sequel to Misery
Stephen King may love his Constant Readers, but he has a major hate-on for collectors, and people who fetishize authors and/or their work. Besides the popular example of Annie Wilkes, who kidnaps and torments her favorite author in Misery, we can also look to Calvin Tower, whose desire to collect and hoard books almost ends the world in the Dark Tower series. To these maniacs, King adds the nasty wolf, Morris Bellamy. “For readers, one of life’s most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers – not just capable […]
Featuring surprisingly few lepers
Paula Nangle’s The Leper Compound seemed like a books with incredible potential, but it ended up being pretty disappointing in the end. The writing style, very loose and dreamlike, didn’t lend itself well to the material, which was harsh and unforgiving. Maybe Nangle did that on purpose, aiming for contrast, but it ended up muddled and confusing instead. The novel focuses on Colleen, a white girl growing up in the late 20th century in Rhodesia. Her mother died when she was seven, and Colleen herself nearly died of […]
And it’s over
Anyone who’s read the Odd Thomas books should have an idea what’s going to happen in the last novel of the series. Koontz hints at it for seven books, after all. And due to the mythology of these books and Odd’s personal beliefs, and losses over the years, it’s a happier ending than it should be. “Free will,” she agreed, “our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.” Saint Odd wraps up all the loose ends […]
I think you mean “Selfish Bitch Flees Alabama”
Oh this book make made so MAD! Set in the 1960s in Alabama, Mark Childress’s novel follows two plotlines/perspectives. First is Peejoe, a twelve year old boy who lives with his grandmother. One day his Aunt Lucille shows up with all of her kids — and her dead husband’s head — announcing that she killed her husband because he wouldn’t let her go to Hollywood (seriously). She shows everyone the head, even her poor kids, dumps the children with her mother and drives off to […]
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