Okay, someone else really needs to start picking out books for me to read. First, I started reading The Mandibles shortly after the last election and had to set it aside because the dystopian view of the United States being reduced to a Third-World Nation was hitting a little to close to home at the time. And now, on one of the most depressing days that I can remember*, other than the days my mother and father died, I finished reading A Monster Calls. I’ve mentioned before that […]
The Mandibles
Even though I am giving this book a high rating, I want to warn everyone that it may not be palatable in light of the recent election. I actually started reading it in late November, but was still too traumatized by Trump’s winning the Presidency that I had to set it aside after a few chapters. Sometimes I’m in the mood for dystopian fiction, but I usually prefer authors who write about plausible futures, not vampire or alien invasion futures. (Stephen King’s The Stand being a […]
More than This
I have been a fan of Patrick Ness since I happened to come across his book, “The Knife of Never Letting Go,” the first book in his “Chaos Walking” series. He captures the feelings of those of us who suffered from the very real angst in our teens of, “Why don’t I easily fit in like others seem to? Why I am I always filled with self-doubt? Where is my place in life if I can’t be easily slotted into the jock, geek, beautiful cheerleader, or ugly-duckling-turned-into-most-popular-person role? […]