This book would best be approached with no real knowledge of the plot, but I’ll try to give you something more than just, “Go read it, it’s good, I swear!” “You forget what it was like. You’d swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How […]
“You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
The reviews on Goodreads of Jennifer Niven’s All the Bright Places seem to fall into two camps: either “SQueeeee OMG this book changed my life guys so many FEEEEEELINGS” OR “This book is a lame rip off of John Green/Rainbow Rowell/other YA author”. Y’all seemed to review it fairly well overall, so I gave it a shot, and I’m glad I did. It didn’t exactly change my life, but it did make an impression and I’m glad I read it. “It’s my experience that people are a lot […]
“Money, it turns out, is the new Jim Crow.”
My library has a long waiting list for The Cutting Season, which a few of y’all have recommended. So I downloaded Attica Locke’s other two novels, Black Water Rising and its sequel, Pleasantville, on audiobook while I wait. I’ve finished Black Water Rising, which was excellent, and I’m halfway through the equally well-written Pleasantville. So now I’m even more impatient to read The Cutting Season! Black Water Rising, set in Houston in the early 1980s, stars Jay Porter — a African American attorney struggling to keep his criminal defense practice alive. […]
You can take the girl out of Africa…
I actually finished the third of Alexandra Fuller’s memoirs, Leaving Before the Rains Come, right after the other two. But while I loved the other two and couldn’t wait to write them up, I felt a lot more “meh” about this one, so I’m just now getting around to it… “You always think there will be more time and then suddenly there isn’t. You know how it is. You have to leave before the rains come, or it’s too late.” This third memoir focusing primarily on Alexandra’s marriage, and […]