This is a YA novella that debuted with much acclaim and has won many awards. So of course, I didn’t like it. It was the premise that reeled me in. It’s about students at a boarding school for kids who have entered and then returned from fantasy worlds. They are obsessed with returning, but have to wait for the doorway to their world to reappear. When and where it appears is different for everyone. I like the idea that everyone has a magical door, an […]
Maybe read this during the day…
This is a sinister story that you can read in just a few hours. It’s about Amanda, who is happily married with a great job as an architect. As strange things begin happening to her, she can’t quite figure out if it’s her, or something else. Like the tapping she constantly hears at home (it’s the pipes), or the strange incident at work (must have been a practical joke). But as things get more sinister, Amanda finds herself consulting a book on demon possession she’s […]
A great addition to our contemporary canon
Although one’s looks may not be completely obvious over the nets that inter, you may be surprised to hear that I am in fact, a white girl…with blue eyes, medium-length brown hair, and a build that’s not too fat or too thin. I get the feeling when people meet me and see me later, they think, “Have I met her before?” That’s because they can’t quite place me, as they’ve seen me in every other blue-eyed, brown-haired, medium-built white girl. I just don’t have anything […]
If I told you her real name, I’d have to kill you…
I wasn’t sure what this book was about, just that it was good. So I took a chance and was thrust into the interrogation of a Scottish World War II war prisoner for the Germans. The subject of the interrogation? Not your usual WWII prisoner, as it’s a female. And she seems especially…perky?…for being interrogated. Okay, maybe perky isn’t the best choice of words, but she’s definitely not short on wits, snark, or even a sense of humor. And who can resist someone who says […]
When the author outshines her subject…
Usually the research leading to a book is a means to an end. But with this one, I feel like the book is the means, and the real story lies in the lead up to the book. We could talk about a man so evil he is believed to be responsible for more than 50 rapes and at least 12 homicides. A man who terrorized California for a decade…whose dauchebaggery was low enough to taunt a child, saying he was playing with mommy and daddy. […]
Yes, this is only my third book of the year…but in an alternate life it’s my 31st
ver·sion con·trol noun COMPUTING the task of keeping a software system consisting of many versions and configurations well organized. – google When I’m feeling particularly sorry for myself over something, I like to think that in some other, parallel universe, I was in a similar situation, only things were worse. And now here I am, living in the version of my life that follows the lesser of two evils. How many versions of your life have you imagined? Is there any way to know that […]
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