I’ve been struggling to make my way through a novel and decided to take a sideways read. Influenced by an article on Pajiba I picked up I Kill Giants, the graphic novel by Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Niimura. I’m a fan of the medium and thought it was worth a read without knowing the plot beyond that described in the article. A simple way to describe this is that it’s about a teenage girl (Barbara Thorson) who seems isolated and ostracised from the world around […]
The Scientist Duke
Society’s most coveted duke finds the one thing wealth and position cannot buy—the perfect partner… This is apparently the second book in The Duke Trilogy, but you’d be hard pressed to know that other than the title. I didn’t read the first one (The Scottish Duke), and there was no mention of previous characters or plots. The duke in question here is Jordan Hamilton, Duke of Roth – a second son who inherited the title after the deaths of his father and older brother (a […]
I was so much older then/I’m younger than that now
As you might guess from some of my other posts, I am enough of an Internet Old that this was a re-read for me. I thought it held up beautifully.
Finally a Book I Could Attach Myself To…
Quincy Carpenter is a Final Girl. If you watch horror or slasher movies, you know that the Final Girl is the one who manages to survive against the odds while all of her friends die horrific deaths. Quincy became one after all of her friends were slaughtered on what should’ve been a fun break from college at a mountain house in the Poconos. Ten years later, Quincy has stayed out of the public eye, fallen in love and achieved success as a baker. The almost […]
Family.
The great thing about England is that there are book exchanges to be found everywhere. Free books after you’ve done your grocery shopping? Like. Could England be anymore unreal. I’d seen some reviews for Karen Joy Fowler’s We are all completely beside ourselves I don’t remember the reviews per se, just a sense of good reviews and a very yellow cover. So I picked it up at my local tesco’s and it sat in my TBR pile for quite a while. Until […]
Fine YA novel about being teen, female, outsider in Saudi Arabia
Last week I came across one of those irresistible quizzes that pop up on social media. This one promised to give you something to read based on the types of TV shows you choose to watch. Naturally, I took the quiz and then I retook and retook, because I can’t stand not knowing what other books might be out there for me. Anyway, one of the recommendations was A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena. The blurb sounded pretty good, and as it turns out, […]
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