I have heard a lot about Kristen Hannah’s The Nightingale, and I have read a lot of World War II historical fiction lately (plus I’m almost done with with book #2 in the Chaos Walking series, which is basically “Nazis on another planet”), and I think a combination of those factors led me to enjoy this less than I could have otherwise. “Men tell stories. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals […]
1 great story + 2 decent ones
This book is basically the winter equivalent of a summer beach read, so what would that be? A ski trip hot tub read? It definitely requires a cup of hot cocoa. “Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.” Let Is Snow is made up of three stories, each written by a YA author and each linked in a general way — some characters overlap, and they all take place in roughly the same town. The first story (the […]
I read twice as many books this year as last year…
260 books. That’s an average of 5 books a week. I have a full-time job and two kids under the age of 5. I have no idea how I accomplished this… A lot of YA (and I read a bit more this year than I normally do — maybe that’s how I got through so many books) speaks to adults just as well as it does to teenagers. Books like Golden Boy or Lies We Tell Ourselves feel like almost any audience could connect with them. Other YA — The […]
Well, that was some cracked out weirdness
One of my friends recommended the Night Vale podcast to me a while back. I’m not much for podcasts (I know, I know) so I haven’t gotten around to listening to it. I might have to, though, after thoroughly enjoying this rather insane novel based on it. “She understood the world and her place in it. She understood nothing. The world and her place in it were nothing and she understood that.” Night Vale is a small desert town, occupied by ghosts, angels (although angels don’t […]