So this is the fifth and final book of the time quintet. I read the fifth book before the 4th book because I had it on audiobook and I didn’t carpool for a week so I needed something to entertain me while I was driving to and from work. I mostly hated it! I was very surprised, because I generally liked the first three. I’m going to have to basically spoil the entire book to illustrate why I hated it so much. Spoilers after the […]
Complexity should be your excuse for inaction
“The world is ending, as it always must. But the end of the world is getting faster.” This message is passed from a young girl to an elderly, dying Harry August late in his eleventh life. The trick is that Harry August can’t really die, at least not in the traditional sense. Each time he dies, he is reborn at exactly the same time and place to live his life again, recovering all memory of his past lives a few years into childhood. And he’s […]
Charles Wallace joins the Murray kids’ adventures
A Swiftly Tilting Planet is the third book in the Time Quintet. In A Wrinkle in Time, Meg, Calvin, and Mr. Murray had all the adventures. In A Wind in the Door, it’s again Meg and Calvin with the addition of Meg’s former principal (Charles Wallace’s current principal). Book three finally lets Charles Wallace start adventuring! He also gets a unicorn to ride around on. The Murrays get a shocking phone call at Thanksgiving dinner. There’s a dictator in Patagonia (I think) who wants to […]
24th Century Schizoid Botanist
I looked back and I can’t believe it’s been almost three years since I wrote a review of Still Life, the first book in Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series. I’ve been so happy to see a lot of you are enjoying them too. The Company series by Kage Baker is my next recommendation, but I’m not going to promise you’ll like them. I will say that I love them, and I hope you do too. Of course you must pick up the first book, In the […]