Sidney Sheldon is an author who I was always aware of, but never really thought to read. Philistine that I am, I can thank the good ol’ TV for turning me on to this book: It was mentioned in HBO’s The Night Of as one of the most popular books among Rikers inmates, “for obvious reasons.” Being familiar neither with this book nor jail, my curiosity was piqued. The book alternates between two narrative viewpoints. The first is Noelle Page, the most beautiful girl in […]
Thank you, The Chancellor!
I am super excited to receive these three books — two recent favorites I didn’t own, and a third I’ve been dying to read — and am overwhelmed by your generosity! Thank you!
Went downhill, but I don’t regret finishing
The Study series is three books: one that’s great, one that’s decent, and one that kind of lost its way. Those descriptions are in book order. I’ll get more into the issues where it’s appropriate as I’m discussing each book, but I can vaguely say, without spoilers, that the problems are those that pop up frequently in fantasy novels, where there is a lot of questing back and forth chasing after MacGuffins. While stuff does happen in the literal sense on these journeys, in retrospect, […]
Cerebral and unapologetically feminist.
Taking myself as a reader out of the “ratings game” for a moment, The Blazing World deserves five stars for its ambition, passion, ferocity, and intelligence. It’s a complex book about a complex woman who is consistently undermined and undervalued (probably because she is a woman, and certainly because she’s an older one), and who vows to expose to the world the bias and hypocrisy of those who do so. It’s told after her death through a series of her journal entries, along with written […]