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“if not for these pictures, these sturdy images pulled out of the blur of her memory, her life would have no solidity”

Hum by Helen Phillips

January 1, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

I think your appreciation of this book will depend greatly on how you interact with technology, especially the latest generation of AI-focused innovation. That aside, you’ll also either empathize with May as a mother and find her kids Lu and Sy utterly infuriating or find yourself doing that thing where you insist that those who are struggling financially should be perfect to be seen as “deserving.” All that aside, though, I think the book is slightly less clever than it thinks it is but was […]

Filed Under: Featured, Science Fiction Tagged With: helen phillips

wicherwill's CBR17 Review No:1 · Genres: Featured, Science Fiction · Tags: helen phillips ·
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Do You Have the Need? The Need to Read?

The Need by Helen Phillips

February 27, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Helen Phillips knows how to grab your attention. My pulse was already quickening on the very first page. I had to read as much of it as quickly as I could; the chapters are snappy and taught. I had to stop myself from skimming to the bottom of every page. I was desperate for relief; chapters whip back and forth between the present and several hours ago and I just had to know what nasty break was waiting for me in the present. My distress […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Anxiety, Fear, helen phillips, home invasion, magical realism, Motherhood, paleobotanyy, parenthood, tense

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Anxiety, Fear, helen phillips, home invasion, magical realism, Motherhood, paleobotanyy, parenthood, tense ·
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I was not the intended audience for these

The Need by Helen Phillips

Heartburn by Nora Ephron

February 11, 2020 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

One of these books is about a pregnant woman discovering and dealing with her husband’s infidelity and the other is about a mother dealing with a terrifying home invasion so you wouldn’t necessarily think they would be grouped together but no, I’m going for it. And let me explain why. The biggest and most truthful reason is that I didn’t much care for either and by lumping them together I can spend fewer words on both. The second and more tenuous reason is that both […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: helen phillips, Nora ephron

lowercasesee's CBR12 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: helen phillips, Nora ephron ·
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There were footsteps in the other room.

The Need by Helen Phillips

August 2, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a curious novel, one that I think is worth reading and rereading and perhaps in search of a better audience than me. We meet Molly, an paleonbotanist working on a dig. At the dig several objects, decidedly from various distinct time periods (in that their very existence suggests a time origin) appear too well within the dig to indicate pretty much anything other than bizarre phenomenon. In addition to this, she’s a mother of two children and is happening perhaps visions, perhaps delusions, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: helen phillips, the need

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:441 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: helen phillips, the need ·
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