Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See has been on a lot of lists recently and I can certainly see why. Bear with me – I finished it a couple months ago, but have been too busy to write up any of my books, so I might not recall all the reasons it’s so wonderful. The novel centers around two main characters. Marie-Laure LeBlanc is a young French girl who happens to be blind, and lives with her father in Paris in the early […]
Eleanor & Park, Finally.
*Disclaimer: This review is being written as I watch the NCAA men’s basketball championship game. I apologize in advance if this is written more poorly than usual. I first heard about Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park here on CBR. The rave reviews it received from many folks forced me to add it to the list and I’ve finally gotten around to reading it. What is hard for me now, having finished it, is figuring out how I feel about it. In case you’ve not paid […]
Imaginary Friends
Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan is part of my Young Adult filler portion of my reading goal. Kami Glass has lived her entire life with someone else in her head. Most would call it an imaginary friend, but her vivid detail unsettled even her own parents and even ended a childhood friendship. Kami learned, sort of, to keep “Jared” to herself. Kami’s quaint English town, Sorry-in-the-Vale, is not a hotbed of excitement – there’s not enough kids in town for more than one school, even. […]
Another Bess Crawford
I often wonder whether it’s a good thing that I have this tendency toward sticking with a series, regardless whether my level of interest or love for it has waned. It has to get pretty bad, or never be good at all, for me to stop before the end. So here I am, writing up the sixth and surely penultimate if not final, entry into Charles Todd’s Bess Crawford mystery series. This entry is called An Unwilling Accomplice, and we find our heroine Bess at […]