Now, just because they can read on their own does not mean that you can’t read these books with them, just saying. Because that’s definitely the case with this first book: Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo – So the only problem with this book is that I only ordered one copy. And now I have about ten different girls I want to give a copy to. Because guys, it’s SO GOOD. There’s 100 different amazing women, with 100 […]
I give you Liane Moriarty and this is the thanks I get.
My Granny reads a lot. She goes through nearly a book a day, like some kind of elderly badkittyuno. Her taste is pretty decent. I introduced her to Liane Moriarty and in under two weeks she’d read everything she’d ever written. So when she enthusiastically recommended The Girl Who Came Home, I requested it from the library and bumped it to the top of my list. Not much gets to cut in my to-be-read line, but the woman is a months-away-from-70 pancreatic cancer survivor…frankly, who […]
It’s about more than the sinking of the Titanic
This novel, published in 1996 and winner of the Whitbread Prize (shortlisted for the Booker), is set on the Titanic’s fateful voyage, and it is about loss, but not just the loss of those who set sail. Every Man for Himself is about the loss of love, the passing of an old world, and the painful birth of the new one as exemplified by our 22-year-old narrator. Morgan has known both deprivation and privilege, having had a foot in both worlds. Yet, he is not […]