The review title is mostly in jest – if you’ve read my previous reviews, you know I love me some YA . In this case I’ve done myself a disservice because I’m reviewing it late and I’m most of the way through the second novel and they’re starting to blur together. I’m going to try to stick to The Knife of Never Letting Go (ugh, awful title). We start in a small village in a New World. Our narrator, Todd, is nearly 13 and his village […]
An excellent book club book
I can totally buy Reese Witherspoon reading, liking, and recommending this book. It’s a mental image I have no problem with. And a book I have no problem with. I feel like it’s a book you’re about to see everywhere. Admittedly, I’m a bit of a prude and never directly search for the title – I search for the author, or Reese Witherspoon Book Club, or something of the sort. But that’s me. Anyway, a friend saw this on the RWBC list and suggested it […]
Remove head from sphincter, then write.
I almost wish I actually hated this book because then I could summon enough vitriol to fill a full 250-word review. As it stands, all I really got is ” … meh”. I kind of wish I’d done CBR last year just so y’all could have been treated to my screed on My Absolute Darling but nope, you guys are stuck with this much masquerading as a philosophical journey. It’s a writer writing about a writer writing about a writer. She’s so far up her own […]
Pure, undiluted story
The library makes so many books so very accessible for the low low cost of my tax dollars and I love it. Honestly, without it, I would probably stay safely in my niche, but because I have this access, I am exploring so many adventures and stories I would have only maybe heard of. Love your library, folks. Pachinko is a grand generational story, spanning decades and countries, following a single family from the once-united Korean peninsula to Japan. It took me into a history […]