What sort of mischief would two tweens who grew up on a space station get into? Why, inventing new species and saving the day of course! Sanity and Tallulah are best friends and children of VIPs on board their space station home. Sanity is the smarty pants who spends her time experimenting and … [Read more]
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes
Samanta Schweblin. This is a name I have been hearing for years but for some reason I had never read any of her books before this past December. After three books, she is definitely one of my favorite writers. Well, after one book, really. As soon as I finished her story collection “Siete casas … [Read more]
Now We’ve Got Vlad Blood
The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova, is a sweeping historical fiction about, well, historians. This epistolary novel takes you on an adventure spanning centuries, hunting for the truth behind the myth of Dracula. If that isn’t enough for you, there’s romance, mystery, and suspense on every page. … [Read more]
In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory.
There are two driving narratives in this book and at least initially I wasn't clear if they were slowly merging together or slowly diverging apart. That could be for two very different reasons, but the novel, which I listened to as opposed to read, was perfectly fine, but only perfectly fine, so I … [Read more]