All these years, I’ve never claimed a favorite author. I guess I was waiting for someone a little more highbrow, but screw it. I’m ready to say it: Liane Moriarty is my favorite author. This is a book that walks like chick lit, talks like chick lit, has cover art like chick lit, has a summary that reads like chick lit, but it’s not chick lit. Or it’s chick lit so good it’s almost subversive. I don’t know. What I do know is that (this […]
Freedom is Only the Beginning
Once upon a time, in a far-off land, I was kidnapped by a gang of fearless yet terrified young men with so much impossible hope beating inside their bodies it burned their very skin and strengthened their will right through their bones. They held me captive for thirteen days. They wanted to break me. It was not personal. I was not broken. This is what I tell myself. I know it’s a little early in the year, but I can’t see how An Untamed State […]
The Problem with Keeping a Stiff Upper Lip
Book 2 of Jane Gardam’s Old Filth Trilogy focuses on Elisabeth “Betty” Macintosh, wife of Eddie Feathers (aka Filth). We know very little of Betty from Book 1, which was Eddie’s story. It’s strange because the reader might have expected a man married to one woman for 50 years to have had more to say about her. Yet, when we get Betty’s story, there is not much about Eddie either. What we see is that Eddie and Betty married each other as little more than […]
Definitely makes you feel like you bought this at the airport… in the best possible way
Try to relax, but you’ll just keep leaning in to get closer, more of this, faster. “Spiral” is a delivery system of everything fun and exciting about pop fiction. It’s a thriller with an old-school villain, a terrifying bio-weapon, wildly-believable pseudo-science, meticulously revised history, and a kickass prose-style. I loved this. That’s not to say there’s anything revelatory about it… it doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it certainly paints it differently than any of the other wheels rolling around out there, and I’ll buy that […]
I finally joined the Rainbow Rowell fanclub
Somehow I missed the Rainbow Rowell is great fan train. I read all the glowing reviews on the Cannonball and never got around to reading anything by her. I had been seeing some retweets of hers on my Twitter feed and liked them, so I decided to read Fangirl. And I’m sad it took me this long to read it, because I inhaled it. It was so great. Is it possible I have peaked and read my favorite book of the year already? Possibly, yes. […]
An Empire Orphan’s Story
For some reason, not at all planned, the first three books I’ve read this year have focused on childhood and the traumas that inform adulthood. Old Filth, the first book of Jane Gardam’s Old Filth Trilogy, is dedicated to “Raj Orphans and their parents”; also called “Empire orphans,” these children were born in the far flung reaches of the British Empire and then shipped back to England by the time they were 4 or 5 years old to be raised by foster parents while their […]
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