I managed to make it through the long, but very entertaining, The Diviners. It’s set in the 1920s and follows Evie as she is sent to stay with her Uncle Will in New York. This is meant as punishment, but she’s a girl who loves excitement, so she has no problems trading her small Ohio town for the Big Apple. Unfortunately, there is a series of grisly murders. Uncle Will runs a museum of the paranormal, so the police bring him in to try to […]
Things I’m Seeing Without You
Things I’m Seeing Without You is about a girl named Tess. When we first see her, she is dropping out of her boarding school to go live with her estranged father. The boy she loved, Jonah, just killed himself, and Tess is (understandably) distraught. Her father has always pursued some outlandish career goal; the current one is funeral planning. Tess decides to help him, and they plan a great memorial for a beloved racehorse. They decide to become partners and form a new, closer bond. […]
Give Me Liberty! And two book reviews.
Give me liberty! And two book reviews damn it! Yes, I’m reviewing (more) textbooks. Why American History? Well, my instructor asked me the same question, and here was my answer to him: Why History? Because it’s everywhere. It’s in the events that lead to a new technology, it’s in old pictures I see of myself, as I laugh at the fashion trend of the time. It’s in the changes in popular culture, or in our search to understand why something happened the way it did. […]
“Broken people don’t hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten…”
I was a big fan of Francesca Zappia’s Made You Up, and was excited for her follow up, Eliza and Her Monsters. The book did not disappoint. It’s about Eliza, who is a loner misfit at school but secretly the mastermind behind Monstrous Sea, a phenomenally popular web comic. The trouble starts when she befriends the new boy at school, Wallace. He’s a very active member of her fandom. The closer that they get, the worse it will be when he finds out who she […]