Hello! I should really have started writing these earlier in the year, but since I obsess so much over them, tend to put it off. And here is another thing I put off – reading this book. It has been on my list for YEARS, but I never got around to it until this year. Originally published in 1962, A Wrinkle in Time is the story of Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, and their friend Calvin O’Keefe. The story is pretty simple: the Murry kids’ father is […]
More Fairyland, Please!
After reading the first of Catherynne Valente’s Fairyland series on sort of a whim, I immediately bought the rest of the series, hoping that the sequels would live up to the first. And book #2 did not disappoint! In fact, I think I enjoyed it even more than the first. It’s a bit darker, and a bit richer, and a bit more profound. Our protagonist, September, has been out of Fairyland for a year, living in Nebraska with her mother while her father is off at […]
A Love triangle tale of neurotic mind vigilantes
Justine suffers from near-incapacitating hypochondriac whose mother died from a rare disease everyone refused to believe she had. Damn good reason to have health anxieties, I say. She struggles through each day as if it’s her last in case that elusive vein will explode in her brain. But living on edge is almost too much for her hunky, yet simple-minded boyfriend, Cubby. That is until she meets Packard, a mysterious Turkish restaurant owner, who says he can save her hypochondriac self-implosion. Justine (and myself!) is skeptical to say the […]
Are you more heroic if you sacrifice yourself for people who shun and fear you?
Disclaimer! This was granted to me by Open Road Integrated Media through NetGalley in return for a fair and unbiased review. Aerin is the lonely, ostracized daughter of the ruler of Damar. She has pale skin and fiery red hair amongst a people who are bronzed with dark hair. She cannot even remember who first told her the story, but she has known for as long as she can remember that her mother was a commoner witch-woman who came from the North, who ensorcelled the […]