My affection for Jojo Moyes has been well documented throughout my years on CBR so I was ecstatic to see The Horse Dancer was finally released in the United States! This is an older novel and it bears more resemblance to Ship of Brides or Silver Bay than her more recent novels like Me Before You and its sequel Me After You. Like most of Moyes novels there are various viewpoints from several main characters whose stories intertwine to form a charming story. Natasha is a busy lawyer navigating the biggest case of her […]
Oh, Jojo, I just can’t quit you
3.5 star rating for Paris for One (a novella); 2.5 star rating for the “other” stories). Paris for One is the story of Nell, 26 and unmarried (insert gasp!) but dating a rather useless boyfriend. After mentioning to him that she’s never been to Paris, he responds with “you should go one day, you’d love it), so she immediately buys plane tickets and books a hotel room for a weekend getaway. Unsurprisingly (at least, to everyone but Nell), useless boyfriend no shows, and she’s left to navigate the city […]
Troubled Short Stories about Troubled Romances
Paris for One, the titular story for Jojo Moyes collection of short stories, is both the longest and best story in the bunch. Paris for One is more novella length and tells the story of Nell, an English girl, who impulsively buys a weekend getaway to Paris for herself and her loser boyfriend. The loser boyfriend bails on the trip and Nell is left stranded in one of the most romantic cities in the world. The front desk woman at her hotel sends Nell to a […]
117 Days
I’ve been sitting on this review for awhile now, and not just because I procrastinate with the best of them when it comes to my reviews, but because I honestly do not know how I feel about this book. I think I know how I’m supposed to feel about it, but I’m not even a hundred percent sure of that. I’m sure you know the story, especially since the movie came out a few months ago. Quiet, shy, relatively poor Louisa loses her job at […]
A resounding meh
2.5 stars. I had heard wildly different opinions about this book before actually reading it, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I’ve seen reviews lambasting it while others raved about it. And I’ve read more than a couple of think pieces lambasting it for its treatment of disabled people and a few defending the story. It feels a bit anticlimactic to read it and shrug my shoulders with a meh, but that’s exactly what happened. I can definitely see why the disabled community would […]
Ah, Ableism
#LiveBoldly That hashtag was featured heavily in my Twitter time line over the weekend, as the film version of “Me Before You” hit theaters. I had purchased the book at Target while trying to pass the time after a work training, but didn’t realize there was such discussion around it. Even though I knew the film was getting some very severe criticism, I wasn’t familiar enough with the plot to know if that was because the film hewed close to the book, or strayed from […]
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