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“Perhaps it’s just the way the light hits, but everything looks like a target to me”

Deadly Class Volume 1: Reagan Youth by Rick Remender

February 7, 2019 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

This is a graphic novel I’ve had on my shelf for quite some time but didn’t pick up until I heard the television adaptation had come out on SyFy. I love nothing more than being a smug book reader. I’ve heard it described has Harry Potter for assassins and the description is apt but I think you need to throw a little John Hughes in there to make it a perfect comparison. Deadly Class is the story of Marcus Lopez, a homeless teen in 1987 […]

Just as outstanding as the first book, now I need to seek out The Lady Astronaut short stories

The Fated Sky: A Lady Astronaut Novel by Mary Robinette Kowal

February 7, 2019 by Dome'Loki 2 Comments

Fun fact, Robinette is not part of her last name and while it sits in the middle of her name it isn’t technically a middle name either. She is Mary Robinette, and that is how she prefers to be called. Both Mary and Robinette are in honor of her grandmothers. It is not uncommon to find her books misshelved due to this misunderstanding. The Fated Sky is the second book in the Lady Astronaut duolgy that started with The Calculating Stars. The alternate timeline Kowal created has […]

History, politics and soap opera are a great combination

The House of the Spirits: A Novel by Isabel Allende

February 7, 2019 by ElCicco 1 Comment

Isabel Allende’s debut novel from 1982 is a sweeping historical drama set in Chile, though that country is never named. This is the story of multiple generations of one family as they deal with political upheaval and unrest, culminating in a right wing military dictatorship known for its human rights atrocities. Told from the points of view of the Trueba family patriarch Esteban and his granddaughter Alba, The House of the Spirits takes the reader from poverty stricken city streets, to mines and rural areas, […]

Everyone’s a little bit garbage sometimes.

Grist Mill Road by Christopher Yates

February 5, 2019 by LadyStardust Leave a Comment

Grist Mill Road is the small side road that leads to the front door of Hannah’s family’s enormous home in 1982. The summer of that year, Hannah will lose her left eye to an unthinkable crime, and her middle school crush, Matthew, will be responsible. By 2008, Hannah is married to Patrick, Matthew’s former best friend, who has recently lost his job. The two never discuss the events of 1982, along with… some other things. In 2008, the three meet again, and as their secrets […]

“My father was dying and I was pregnant. Both struck me as impossibly unreal.”

Brother, I'm dying by Edwidge Danticat

February 5, 2019 by tillie 2 Comments

Do you like to cry? Do you like to be reminded about sadness, loss and the general unfairness of the world. Then boy! Do I have the book for you. In the very first chapter we follow a daughter as she takes her dying father to the hospital, and then later in the living room at home when he gathers the family turns to his wife and asks “What would you like to happen after I am gone?” So there we are, not just in […]

Time to move Sarina Bowen back on hiatus

Pipe Dreams by Sarina Bowen

February 5, 2019 by Malin 2 Comments

Lauren Williams used to love hockey, but after Brooklyn Bruisers goalie Mike Beacon suddenly dumped her without warning, she stays far away from the game, and is very grateful that her boss, Nate Kattenberger, has her running his office in Manhattan, so she can focus on moving on and building a life for herself on her own. She’s about to graduate from college, with a lot of bright career prospects in her future and she’s planning on having a baby, by herself. She’s none too […]

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Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
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