Bingo Square: So Shiny! Picking up after Me Before You and After You, Still Me finds Louisa Clark in New York, working as an assistant for the Gopnik family. Specifically, Lou is there to help Agnes Gopnik, the much younger (very unhappy) second wife of Leonard Gopnik. She handles Agnes’s schedule, attends swanky events with her, and keeps her secrets. They’re friends you see. Lou also attracts other ‘friendly’ attention in the form of Josh, a man who looks strikingly similar to someone Lou loved […]
We have to keep talking
Bingo Square: The Book Was Better? I recently watched the TV series Waco, starring Taylor Kitsch as David Koresh and Michael Shannon as Gary Noesner, the FBI negotiator at the 1993 siege. It was an excellent series which made me realise how little I knew about the event, and how bad it was. The show was based on Noesner’s book, Stalling for Time, and also an account by a survivor, David Thibodeaux’s Waco: A Survivor’s Story. I’d been hoping to read and review both for […]
Your typical patriarchal nightmare
Bingo square: Throwback Thursday 16 year old Ann Burden is alone in the world. Her valley has miraculously survived a world ending event; touched on all sides by deadness and poisoned air, she has no way to leave or any idea if others have survived. Then one day a man appears in the distance, heading for her sanctuary. He has on a suit that protects him and pulls a wagon of supplies. Ann chooses to hide in a cave near her home before he arrives, […]
“Knowledge isn’t a sign of divine favor. Prosperity is.”
Bingo square: This is the End. Also I hit half a cannonball, yay! That was my goal so everything from here on in is extra. There will be some spoilers for the first book in here. Picking up where Six of Crows left off, Crooked Kingdom follows Kaz Brekker and his gang of ne’er-do-wells as they deal with the betrayal and fallout from their heist. Inej has been taken hostage and they don’t have the money promised them. They’re all a bit battered and exhausted but […]