I liked this novel by Attica Locke, which I believe several of y’all reviewed already, but it didn’t quite live up to my expectations. Her other two, starring Jay Porter in Houston, were much more interesting. But she told a good story here nonetheless. “Mothering, she learned the hard way, was about loss as well as love.” Caren’s family has lived on Belle Vie, in Louisiana, for generations. Nowadays, it’s a plantation house that provides school tours, puts on outdated plays and hosts the occasional […]
“End of watch is what they call it, but Hodges himself has found it impossible to give up watching.”
I waited for months for this to come out, spent another month on the on-hold list at my library, devoured the whole thing in 48 hours and insisted on returning it immediately for the next Stephen King fan. So…you’re not going to get an unbiased review here. “It’s about how some people carelessly squander what others would sell their souls to have: a healthy, pain-free body. And why? Because they’re too blind, too emotionally scarred, or too self-involved to see past the earth’s dark curve […]
Dancing Girls
I started tackling Margaret Atwood’s oeuvre a couple years ago — I think the first one I read was Alias Grace, and since then I’ve read 17 of her books. Every time I go to Half Price to see if there’s anything new (to me), and I’m starting to run out! Dancing Girls is a short story collection (her first one, in fact), and while it wasn’t one of the better Atwood books that I’ve read, it was still pretty good. “Everyone thinks writers must know more […]
“I feel it – I’ve been living in a world, but what I have is a universe”
Caitlin_D wrote a review for this one like, 24 hours after I picked it up from the library. Her review was pretty meh, but I already had the book so I figured I might as well read it. And I felt pretty meh about it, too. “I’m ready to lose myself, but I’m not ready to lose you. I’m ready to find myself, But I’m not ready for you to know what I find.” You Know Me Well alternates between two teenage narrators: Kate, who’s about […]