Betty Halbreich is who I want to end up being. She’s 86, no longer cares what anyone thinks, has 12 closets of gorgeous, classic clothing, and is the founder of Bergdorf-Goodman’s personal shopping service. I’ve been to BG once, was so intimated with how posh it is that I walked in one door and went right back out the next. I’m less dainty society woman and more bull in a china shop, but I love beautiful things. So does Betty, which is a big basis […]
Two Novels, One Book
I have never read a book like this before. There might be others like this, that combine two separate novels into one very large book, but none that have crossed my path. This book was ambitious, long, and ultimately successful. I’ve read Westerfeld’s Uglies series, and the first in theLeviathans, so I was hoping I would enjoy this story of an author and the book she writes, and boy did I.
So a Cyclops and a Satyr Walk Into a Cave…
This was a book I finished a couple weeks ago, and when I sat down to finally write the review…I couldn’t remember anything that happened in the book! It took me trying to remember the ending, and then working backwards to piece together the rest of the story. Now, this could be my head cold of doom talking, but I think it just means the book wasn’t that memorable. It wasn’t bad, but any means, just not something that stuck with me.
I Was Here, But I Wish I Was Somewhere Else
I have devoured 5 of Gayle Forman’s previous books. I distinctly remember when Just One Nightcame out that I camped out in bed, reading it all in one night because it was that good. For me, it’s impossible not to compare I Was Here to the rest of her three-word-title books. They’re all so ingrained in my head, filled with technicolor worlds populated with life-sized characters and storylines that were both fantastical and yet somewhat real. I wonder if I hadn’t read those, hadn’t been so familiar […]