Last year my seven year old got into a cute cooking manga called Kitchen Princess. I read and reviewed book one for Cannonball Read 10 but then only skimmed through the second through fourth books. After reading volumes five and six my daughter somberly told me that a character had died and requested that I read them too. This was an unexpected turn for a shojo manga. The first four volumes contained a beginning love triangle between female protagonist Najika Kazami and brothers Daichi and Sora […]
Pop, six, squish, uh-uh, Cicero, Lipschitz
I had been looking forward to this novel since I read the first reviews several months ago and it did not disappoint. What a fantastic debut! The novel opens with Korede getting a phone call from her sister. Her boyfriend is dead, and she needs help cleaning up. And it’s not the first time Korede has gotten this kind of call from her younger sister Ayoola. This novel is fun, dark and a very quick and enjoyable read. It’s the story of an older sister […]
True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
(Italian Cover: http://www.formatbiz.it/post.php?id=3937) For the right audience, this may be the perfect book. It’s a book that has been floating around in my consciousness for a long time, but I’ve generally avoided, and I have to imagine that that avoidance has served me well here because I really enjoyed it and appreciated it in a lot of ways. There’s also a younger version of me for more than one reason that would have not liked it, would not have had the patience or energy for it, […]
Taking leave of my publisher, I went to consult an artist friend on my future prospects.
(http://www.wilkie-collins.info/books_rogue.htm) This is an 1856 novella written by Wilkie Collins and published serially. The novel spends several years with Frank Softly, the titular rogue and someone from a middle-class, more or less well-to-do family, who goes from being a political cartoonist to a would-be artist to a would-be scam artist plying his artistic trade in numerous ways including producing fakes of masterpieces and counterfeiting money. This book is relatively short and you can feel within the writing that it’s being serialized because chapters to tend […]