It took me a bit to get into this one but, by the time I was about three quarters of the way through, I was pretty desperate to finish it. Granted, that is a long way to go to get to the good stuff, but I’m not sure I can blame the book because I recently fell into a BOOK RUT big time and so my reading experience suffered. (I blame the book rut entirely on Penny Reid because I kept reading her Knitting in […]
An American Horror Story
Our envy of others devours us most of all. ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn At one point in Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel The Bluest Eye, a character reflects on jealousy and envy. As a child, she was familiar with jealousy — that feeling that someone else has gotten something that rightfully belongs to you. Envy, when it comes, is a new and unsettling feeling, a perception that somehow, one is lacking something. In The Bluest Eye, that something is beauty, beauty as defined by others, beauty […]
Well, it’s going to be a great play!
This is a tough one…I loved the Harry Potter books but this isn’t technically an 8th book, because we all know Rowling said she was done with the books. So she came up with a new story for a theater production and the screenplay was printed in book format. So first, let’s sort out who actually wrote what. From what I can surmise, the story is a collaborative work by Rowling, Thorne, and Tiffany. But the screenplay itself was written by Jack Thorne. So what […]
Ah Amnesia, it’s been too long…
First let me address the elephant in the room: I have failed at my bid to read 52 books this year seeing at I have only made it to number three and it is October. Sigh. When I decided to go for a cannonball I was pregnant with Love Spawn #2 and figured I would read while my belly grew and I was able to move less and less. Then life threw a curve ball by way of a difficult pregnancy and all bets were […]
“The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.”
I did not really like the beginning of this book, so I’m glad I stuck with it. Our main character, A.J. Fikry, is not in a very good place at first. You find out why he’s so nasty and bitter, although he’s never really all rainbows and sunshine. But the story gets better. Much better. Shortly after we begin, A.J. is robbed of a valuable book, Tamerlane, which is a very rare edition of a poem by Edgar Allen Poe. (It really exists. Thanks, […]
Both Sides Now
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Sympathizer is a confession written by a nameless narrator to a nameless commandant. The narrator suffers from the ability to see both sides of events and of people. Through his confession, he reveals his life story, which is tied up with the history of his country, Vietnam, and foreign intervention there. Given his sympathetic nature, the narrator is able to see at times the good intentions but especially the bad of all those involved in his life […]
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