I never would have picked this one up without y’all’s reviews, which all basically said: this book was weird and violent but I think I liked it? Expandingbookshelf, I believe your review finally tipped me over the edge. So I read it, and I’m here to say: this book was weird and violent but I’m pretty sure liked it. “For all intents and purposes, the power of the Library is infinite. Tonight we’re going to settle who inherits control of reality.” Carolyn and her fellow Librarians work […]
“What would that be like? To wake up one morning and be normal?”
This book tackles some serious mental health issues, and does so with an interesting cast of characters. Still, I found it a bit lacking plot-wise, with much more emphasis on the teenagers-in-love than I really needed. “I believe that I am unclean and will harm those I care about the most and that there is too much noise in my head and that I am so goddamned tired.” Adam attends group therapy in Room 13B, along with several other teenagers suffering with OCD. Their therapist […]
“Here on Coney Island, we learn to take each other as we are.”
Magruder’s Curiosity Cabinet, set on Coney Island in 1904, has quite the cast of characters — funny, freaky folk who make their living off the “Dozens” (as in, “Dime a”) who come to gawk at them every day. But when a serious illness hits the island, the Unusuals (as they call themselves) discover just how dangerous it can be to live on the fringes of society — and how important it is to band together. And for little Kitty Hayward, visiting from England and suddenly without a family, […]
Didn’t quite live up to the hype, but a good read nonetheless
Emma Cline’s The Girls has appeared on every list of can’t-miss books that I’ve seen so far this year. It finally came out, and I snagged a digital copy from the library. It was definitely good, even though not quite as good as I expected. “Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get.” The Girls tells the story of Evie Boyd, now a driftless grown woman, who fell into a cult in the 1960s […]