Time is running desperately short, so please find my review (coming very soon) of The Children Act on my website here.
A Contemporary Mr. Rochester–with puppets!
I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that Susan Elizabeth Phillips is one of my favorite contemporary romance authors. Although I’ve been a little disappointed in some of her more recent books, I’m still far from giving up on her. So when her latest book, Heroes Are My Weakness, came out in August of this year, I was waiting for it. And months and months later, I finally got off the library’s waitlist and downloaded the book. And I read it in a day. Annie is virtually […]
Best Book I’ve Read This Year
I’ve had Code Name Verity (2012) by Elizabeth Wein in my library queue for months. I think at least twice it came up, but I either forgot to check it out in time or ran out of time to read it. Part of the problem was I couldn’t remember why I’d chosen to read it. I vaguely remembered that it was a young adult novel set during World War II that had something to do with women spies. I was imagining some kind of Disney-fied […]
The horror of losing yourself
I’ve seen Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (2013) by Susannah Cahalan around in bookstores and it caught my interest. So I finally picked it up. This was a fast read and a fascinating true story of a 24-year-old woman who loses her mind, without warning and without explanation. Susannah Cahalan is a reporter at the New York Post when her life starts slowly unraveling. It starts with a little paranoia, acting odd, and missing deadlines. Susannah’s symptoms quickly progress to where she is […]
500 Years of Nuns
The Sisterhood (2013) by Helen Bryan was the latest selection of my local book club. I didn’t choose this one and hadn’t heard of it, but it looked interesting so I began it willingly enough. The Sisterhood is an ambitious novel that travels jumps almost 500 years and across continents: from Spain, to South America, to southern United States. Menina Walker was found as a toddler, alone in a boat after a terrible hurricane in South America. There was no sign of her family, but […]
Better than expected
I’ve read, and didn’t particularly like, The Jane Austen Book Club, so I wasn’t especially interested in reading another book by Karen Joy Fowler. However, what happens so often these days occurred again: I saw a number of positive reviews of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2014) on Cannonball Read, and they convinced me that I should give it a try. The story revolves around Rosemary Cook, a rather aimless college student at UC Davis with little to no friends. We know almost immediately […]
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