I’m woefully behind in my reviews, and so I’ve had some time and space apart from this novel, and I have to tell you, I still don’t know what to think. I can’t tell if I loved it for all of its gothic-ness, or I hated it for all of its horrible characters. So I’m giving it three stars, because that feels like a solidly middle-of-the-pack recommendation, but if you pick this up, know going in to it that you might get to the end […]
This book should be called DUNCE Road
Oh, Jane. I had such high hopes for you after reading Family Pictures, so I read Mr. Maybe, which wasn’t a home run with me, but I wanted to give you another chance. But I think I might have to break up with you after reading this. You nearly did me in. Plus? Halfway through I realized I’d read this before but I still read it again, and now I’m a little mad at myself. Dune Road is the story of middle-aged Kit, who is […]
“I didn’t need to die for him to kill me.”
It wasn’t until I went to Amazon to read some reviews of This Is How It Ends that I realized that the entire book takes place over 54 minutes. That’s it. Just 54 minutes of heart-racing adrenaline, tears, anger, sadness, fear, disgust, terror, and laughter. At 10 am on a sunny morning in January, the principal of Opportunity High School in Opportunity, Alabama, finishes her beginning of the semester speech. It’s the same speech each year, and so a senior named Tomas and his friend […]
“It’s a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks.”
In fact, high school is where we are first introduced to the basic existential question of life: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad? I downloaded Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl from the library a few weeks ago. It’s the “other book” about kids with cancer and hasn’t been discussed with quite as much fervor or passion as The Book. Confession time: I still haven’t read The Fault in our Stars. I love you, John Greene, but I […]