Extraordinary Means starts out as just the story of a boy and a girl meeting again at boarding school — 17 year old overachiever Lane, and a girl named Sadie that he vaguely remembers from summer camp years ago. But we quickly learn that what appears to be a boarding facility is actually a sanitarium, and Lane and Sadie (along with dozens of other teens) have been quarantined here due to their incurable strain of tuberculosis. “Everything of who I was and who I wanted to […]
“We are all a collection of lost causes, stashed here so no one has to see just how wounded we are.”
Warning up front: this book centers around a girl in treatment for an eating disorder, so this may not be the right review/book for you to read. “The thing was, I needed to be owned. I needed someone to say, This girl is mine. That´s what family is for, but mine was almost gone. There was no one to claim me but Eden and my sickness. So I gave myself to both.” In Paperweight, our protagonist Stevie (which is my favorite new nickname for Stephanie) […]
Do not be a curly-haired blonde in a Kate Atkinson novel
So I read Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life last year, and despite the amazing reviews it got, I just did not like it. It was depressing, the main character keep dying over and over (which I know was the whole point, but gawd), and I just could not enjoy it. But I liked Atkinson’s style of writing, and Stephen King, of all people, recommends her over and over, so I thought I’d give it another shot. “Patricia embraces me on the station platform. ‘The past […]
“I’m frightened of the power I have given him over me and of how he will almost certainly abuse it, merely by not being fully aware he has it.”
So… I didn’t really like this one. But I feel bad about that, which is why I’ve waited a few days to post a review. “If anyone reads this when I have passed to the big bad beyond I shall be posthumorously embarrassed. I shall spend my entire afterlife blushing.” I know a lot of people had extraordinary feelings about this book because Carrie Fisher did just passed away. I, too, was very upset by her death as well as the death of her mother, […]