Malorie Monsard returns to the south of France, where she grew up, having left on a hike after finishing high school and made enough money in Paris to put herself through business school. Having felt like an outcast while growing up, due to the legacy of her great-grandfather who betrayed resistance members to the Gestapo, and a narcissistic father who would manipulate her, her mother, her sisters and her grandmother, and charm, lie and steal his way until he finally met an unglamourous end in […]
No rogues here, just a boring tale
Well, I’ve not read anything by Mary Jo Putney before, so this was an impulse grab at the library. It turned out to be a bad choice – it was a bit of a dud. I wasn’t sure if I was going to finish it or not, but I skimmed through parts of it just to get through it. The plots (there’s more than one going on) seemed predictable, and the characters weren’t that memorable. The hero wasn’t a rogue in the least, either, so […]
Need a Hero? El Deafo To the Rescue!
Well, I couldn’t have chosen a better book to raise my spirits in these trying times. Cece Bell’s Newbery Honor-winning graphic novel is pitched toward kids but will entertain and educate anyone who picks it up. El Deafo is Bell’s account of losing her hearing but finding her power in her childhood. I am the parent of two special needs kids, one of whom wears a hearing aid, and I found myself saying, “wow, I never thought of that,” as Bell recounts what it was […]
I don’t know if I liked the book or not, but I’d definitely see the movie.
Sometimes, when you read a book, you can’t help but picture the story in your head, almost as if it were a movie. And sometimes, you get the feeling that a book was pretty much written so that it could eventually become a movie. That’s not a knock against the writers who produce books like that really. I just feel like some books are written so that they can someday be watched instead of read. And I fell like The Sisters Brothers is one of […]