In lesser hands, a novel about a girl, Lara Jean, having her secret letters she wrote to each of her five crushes accidentally mailed out, would be a fun but slight high school romp of a story. But author Jenny Han delivers something even better with “To all the Boys I’ve Loved Before”. Sure, this is a romance but more than that, it’s a story about sisters, family and the subtle way grief lingers and shapes us. Relatively sheltered and an introvert, biracial Lara Jean is […]
H*cking finally
Lord save me from the overrated ramblings of mediocre white men. What possessed Craig Ferguson to write this? Did he just want to add “writer” to his list of credits? Was he thumbing his nose at the literary world just to see what they would publish? Had he somehow deluded himself into thinking this was good? In a weird way, reading this made me think of watching that new movie, The Front Runner, in that it made me question why it existed in the first place. […]
Greatness
Read for CBR10Bingo: Book was better. The movie is one of my all-time favorites. This is my first time reading the novel. I’ve read five James Ellroy books in the last few months so if you want my thoughts on my personal evolution towards his works, check past reviews. Having read the tail end of his work and the beginning of what made him popular, I can say with confidence this is the best book he’s written. It’s the perfect merger of his style and […]
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
CBR10Bingo – Birthday! (Ursula LeGuin October 21) To paraphrase Octavia Butler is talking about her novel “Survivor,” her book she kind of abandoned to out of print status: it was her Star Trek novel. This means that ultimately what she felt was happening in that novel was too conceit-heavy, too tropey, and too much about discovery of a weird alien race and then turning into a kind of hackneyed sci fi Golden Age schlock. In the two first Hain novels, there’s a kind of teetering […]
The most futile thing a man can do is to ponder the alternative.
CBR10Bingo – Home Something Home So I grew up in and currently live in Virginia. And I am from the western part of the state, which is more conservative than I like to admit these days, but also was significantly poorer and mountainous than the huge farming belts in the middle and eastern parts of the state. And so begins the lie that many white people like to tell themselves reflecting on their place in the South in a post-Civil War society. The people of […]
A pretty depressing bingo
Bingo Square: Award Winner In August of 1944, Saint-Malo in France is under siege. 16 year old Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, is trying to survive the bombing and hide from someone who is searching for her. 18 year old Werner, a German solider, is trapped in the rubble of a hotel. From this starting point we go back several years, to Marie-Laure first losing her sight, and Werner’s childhood in an orphanage with his younger sister. Marie-Laure lives with her father, a […]
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