Jojo writes in the introduction to this one that she never really intended to write a sequel to Me Before You, but the fans demanded one so here it is. I’m not sure that Me Before You really needed a sequel, but I’m glad she provided one — even if it’s not quite as good as the first (when are they ever, really?). “You know what makes me feel down? The way you keep promising to live some kind of a life, then sacrifice yourself to every […]
The Giant in the cargo bay
And so I’ve reached the (current) end of Orson Scott Card’s Shadow Series. Allegedly, he has another novel called Shadows Alive in the works — but no idea when that will be released. I enjoyed Shadows in Flight, but it definitely feels more like set up for the next book than a novel in its own right. “What I want,” he said softly, “is to stand in this meadow and walk in the light of the sun.” After the events of Shadow of the Hegemon, Bean and his three […]
“Push yourself. Don’t settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
Like my sister warned me — get your tissues ready for this one. “All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine. You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.” Louisa Clark has been sort of muddling through life — she’s dated the same guy for 7 years without it really […]
“…an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.”
“In 1938… the year’s #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn’t even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.” I really liked Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken — not just the story (probably one of the most depressing things I’ve read all year) but the way she told it. I liked it enough to bump up another of her biographies on my TBR shelf: Seabiscuit: An American […]