I’ve heard a lot about the Chaos Walking series, a dystopian fantasy set on another planet, but never got around to reading it. Audible recently had all 3 books for $4 each, plus a short story as a free download, so I got the whole series on audio (how could I resist?). “The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.” 12 (almost 13!) year old Todd Hewitt lives in Prentisstown, on New World. When he was just a baby, a […]
“I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable”
I had put off reading this one for a while, because I expected it to be depressing. It was sad, but not depressing — enough hopeful and wonderful things happen to balance out the parts that make you want to cry. “Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?…Yes, I do. I believe in ghosts….They’re the ones who haunt us. The ones who have left us behind.” Vivian Daly, a widow in her 90s, spend some time on an “orphan train” when she was a little girl. […]
Holy hell–you guys are so good at recommending books!
Well, consider me a Golden Boy pusher — this book was incredible, and I’ve already lent my copy away (read: forced it on my little sister). So, so good. “It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.” Max Walker has always been a good kid — good-looking, athletic, well-behaved. The kind of kid that adults and other kids his age love equally. But he has a secret — he’s […]
Well, I did like the elephant, at least
I had high hopes for this one — an interesting premise, and a different kind of setting than I’m used to (Mumbai). But between the characters that were more like caricatures, and the fact that you feel like you’re somehow missing some background (I checked more than once to make sure that the book was the first in the series, because it really feels like a story came before it), I ended up pretty disappointed. “On the day he was due to retire, Inspector Ashwin Chopra discovered that […]