#40: The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket: 1 star. #41: The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket: 1 star. #42: The End by Lemony Snicket: 1 star. #43: Bachelor’s Anonymous by P.G. Wodehouse: 1 star. #44: A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle: 1 star. #45: The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle: 2 stars. #46: Dear Girls Above Me: Inspired by a True Story by Charlie McDowell: 4 stars. #47: Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things […]
Sharply, Darkly, Beautiful
This magical, dark and complex book was also a gift. It came in a bag of books from a friend that I promised to take to the charity shop (I will at some point!) and it called to me from the bag like a jewel in the (Beast Quest and Goosebumps) rough. It is told from the viewpoint of fourteen-year-old Evie, who after four years is finally able to tell her adoptive parents about the shattered ribs she has kept secret. The story begins as […]
I’m glad I got SOMETHING out of that Eastern European Lit class…
In which Siege revisits the work of a college favorite and appreciates some poetry like a damn lit major.
Didn’t I See That Twist in a Goosebumps Book Once?
I’m not completely clear on the timeline between these books. I’m not sure it’s worth trying to track, but I can’t help myself. This book doesn’t open with a narration from a murderer, either, so maybe I was wrong to expect it to be a standard for these books. This one is told in first person, but it hops back and forth between Mark and Cara. It’s shortly after the school year started, and Mark and Cara Burroughs are new students. As near as I […]