Paula Nangle’s The Leper Compound seemed like a books with incredible potential, but it ended up being pretty disappointing in the end. The writing style, very loose and dreamlike, didn’t lend itself well to the material, which was harsh and unforgiving. Maybe Nangle did that on purpose, aiming for contrast, but it ended up muddled and confusing instead. The novel focuses on Colleen, a white girl growing up in the late 20th century in Rhodesia. Her mother died when she was seven, and Colleen herself nearly died of […]
And it’s over
Anyone who’s read the Odd Thomas books should have an idea what’s going to happen in the last novel of the series. Koontz hints at it for seven books, after all. And due to the mythology of these books and Odd’s personal beliefs, and losses over the years, it’s a happier ending than it should be. “Free will,” she agreed, “our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.” Saint Odd wraps up all the loose ends […]
I think you mean “Selfish Bitch Flees Alabama”
Oh this book make made so MAD! Set in the 1960s in Alabama, Mark Childress’s novel follows two plotlines/perspectives. First is Peejoe, a twelve year old boy who lives with his grandmother. One day his Aunt Lucille shows up with all of her kids — and her dead husband’s head — announcing that she killed her husband because he wouldn’t let her go to Hollywood (seriously). She shows everyone the head, even her poor kids, dumps the children with her mother and drives off to […]
I have an unpopular opinion about this one
Um, so…I didn’t really like The Westing Game. Sorry. I know a lot of y’all LOVE it and it seems like on of those childhood books that everyone remembers fondly, but reading it for the first time as a 29-year-old, it was pretty…meh. Not great. Not awful, but still…. “Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.” So if you’re not familiar with the plot, basically these sixteen residents of an apartment building […]