This is one of those books where you’ll figure “it” out about halfway through — but you’ll be so enthralled that you’ll still devour the second half of the book, just to see if you were right! “A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told” First of all, this is not a book where you’re going to be particularly fond of […]
Less Memoir, Most Mystery
Do not read Not My Father’s Son with the expectation of hearing about Alan Cumming’s fabulous life, and all the amazing stuff he gets to do. This focuses mainly on his childhood, which was incredibly shitty. He shifts focuses between his upbringing, and his experience with the TV show Who Do You Think You Are? as an adult, which afforded him the opportunity to find out all sorts of new information about his family. In fact, other than the fact that a non-celeb wouldn’t be featured on this […]
Another Sweet Story About the Wild Place
The Truth About Brave is Karen Hood-Caddy’s sequel to Howl, which I read a couple weeks ago. In Howl, 12 year old Robin loses her mother, so her family moves in with her grandmother to start over. Robin, along with her grandmother, little brother and two friends, open a wildlife rescue called the Wild Place. In The Truth About Brave, Robin’s best friend has started a crusade against factory farms — and Robin has to decide if she’s bold enough to join her. These are sweet little books, which deal with all sorts of pre-teen […]
Good book with an obnoxious narrator
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, which has very little, really, to do with a dying girl (she’s a catalyst, and an audience, but that’s about it) has one of the most obnoxious narrators I’ve ever read. He’s so self-deprecating and whiny that I wanted to strangle him. I actually really enjoyed the book, but the fact that he kept cutting in with “If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you” — this […]