Amelia didn’t jump. This is the text message Kate receives after her daughter Amelia allegedly jumps off the school roof. This prompts Kate to look further into Amelia’s death beyond agonizing about what more she could have done as a single parent working a bazillion hours a week as a lawyer. Amelia was a fifteen-year-old star student accused of plagiarizing an English paper, which the police attribute as the motive for suicide. As Kate investigates more, suicide becomes more and more unlikely. The story is […]
Hanging out with DJ Schwenk is still awesome
TITLE: The Off Season AUTHOR: Catherine Gilbert Murdock DESCRIPTION (from Amazon.com):
A visit to M.C. Escher Park: The Relativity of Dogs, Cats, and Bunnies
Radical Daffodils Review “… Orzel takes a conversational tone both with the reader and in his asides with Emmy, and if his teaching style is anything like his writing style I’d love to take one of his classes one day.”
The Tiring of Popcultureboy 2: Tiring Harder
I don’t quite know why I’m doing the Booker Longlist Challenge, since it’s really become a forced march of books I haven’t really enjoyed reading that much. I had high hopes for The Lowland, since the synopsis sounds aces, but it just didn’t do it for me. I found it a mostly frustrating read, difficult characters and an odd blank style don’t really mesh for me. Subhash and Udayan Mitra are brothers growing up in Calcutta, born just fifteen months apart. It’s the politically tumultuous 1960s, and […]