In Liane Moriarty’s fourth book, The Hypnotist’s Love Story, an Australian hypnotherapist named Ellen meets a bland and grumpy man named Patrick, who turns out to have a son, a dead ex wife, and a stalker – his ex, Saskia, who helped him raise his son for years after his wife’s death. Ellen is intrigued to the point of slightly obsessed with the stalker, and wrestles with an assortment of personal dilemmas: people not taking her career seriously, her mother’s unconventional choice to have her […]
Go North, Young Hippie
I read Tortilla Curtain previously and thought it was a solid novel, so was excited to pick up another book by Boyle, and one that was recommended from my favorite podcast, Literary Disco. If I had to describe Boyle’s writing in one word it would be “unrelenting.” His style can feel like a bit of a slog, but he is a compelling storyteller who shines a light on sub-groups that I don’t often read about, so for me it has felt like I learned a lot […]
Osteomancy: a magic system so good, you’ll eat it up!
In “California Bones”, Greg Van Eekhout has created an alternate version of our world where magic exists. New magic systems excite me, I love figuring out their rules and how they fit within society, and Greg Van Eekhout delivers in his first adult novel. California has seceded from the rest of the United States and Northern and Southern California are separate, hostile kingdoms. Southern California is ruled by The Heirarch. The Heirarch is the single most powerful osteomancer in Southern California, in part due to […]
Cupcakes, Magic Stones, Monkey Burps
This is my first Evanovich novel. I usually avoid this kind of book because I don’t usually like first-person narratives, and I find that the notion of high volume = lower quality is often correct (except for Terry Pratchett). The writing quality isn’t great, but I gotta say, I enjoyed this. The basic story is pretty simple. Lizzy, our cupcake-baking heroine, is getting comfortable in her new job in Salem, Massachusetts after some rough personal times. Cue disruption in the form of two men. Diesel, […]
I want to be a Lumberjane
…they sound better than Girl Scouts! After tearing threw Nimona, I was pleased to have another Noelle Stevenson graphic novel around to immediately devour. The design of the book is really nifty as the layout makes it seem as though you are reading this adventure inside of a Lumberjane’s Field Manual. As a fairly new Girl Scout troop leader I loved reading parts of the field guide, learning about their badges and the appropriate way to wear a uniform. Each chapter ends with “pictures” of […]
Into the woods, it’s time to go, I hate to leave, I have to though. Into the woods, it’s time, and so I must begin my journey
I’ve been meaning to read this for a long time (it’s been on my shelves for years) and I’m so glad I finally picked it up. I was in the perfect mood for a dark, twisty mystery. And this is exactly the kind of mystery I tend to go for: detailed, melancholy, with complex characters. In The Woods centers on Rob Ryan, detective in the Dublin Murder Squad. When he was twelve years old, his best friends went missing in the woods behind their neighborhood […]
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