Wow!! What a book! I am going to start by giving this book 5 stars, but I’m also going to give a warning. Although I thought this book was fabulous, it is possibly not a great book to read if you are sensitive about pregnancies, infertility and/or babies. This book is going to be tricky to review without giving anything away, so apologies for being a bit vague, however any plot detail will be a spoiler alert, so very briefly, this story is about […]
Two parents, a girl, a ghost, and a ticked-off cat
CBR10 BINGO: And So It Begins I added this to my hold list at the library months before the publication date and I STILL had to wait a month for it. Behold the power of Victoria Schwab! I loved her Shades of Magic series (as V.E. Schwab) and liked her YA Monsters of Verity series so it was a no brainer for me to snatch this one up. After a near death experience where she is “rescued” by a ghost, Cass is able to sense […]
The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived
I picked up this book in my ongoing love affair with fiction about the natural world. I also really enjoyed Patchett’s “Commonwealth” and I wanted to read more of her stuff. A little bit “Heart of Darkness” and a little bit “Poisonwood Bible“, Ann Patchett’s “A State of Wonder” explores maternal love, the big business of pharmacology and the ethics of interfering with indigenous people. There’s a lot going on in this book. When a letter arrives bearing the news that Dr. Anders Eckman has […]
Now Here You Go Again, You Say You Want Your Freedom
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about this book the last week or so, even though I read it back in January. Though I guess I’ve mostly been thinking about the premise – teenage girls suddenly gain the power to hurt and even kill people with an electrical current from their hands. They can share the Power with older women, who can then wield it as well. That sounds particularly appealing with everything happening in the world right now. But I don’t like the Frame […]
Psychological Conflict Management
In volume one of Pat Barker’s award winning Regeneration Trilogy, readers experienced life in a hospital for English soldiers suffering from “war neurosis” (PTSD) during WWI. Barker uses both fictional and real historical characters (Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Dr. Rivers) to show the trauma of war for soldiers expected to heal and return to action, and the impact of their experiences upon the doctor treating them. At the end of that novel, Rivers’ patients are being released back to action, which was his goal, but […]
Bringing a community back together
On the 14th of June 2017 Grenfell Tower burned and a community lost 72 people and their home. The recovery process is still ongoing and the building is a scar and a reminder of how cutting costs and ignoring residents can come with a very high price. But Grenfell is a community and they have pulled together in the aftermath of these events to rebuild their lives. And one of the ways they have come together as a community is through cooking – the Al-Manaar […]
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