I am going to be honest here. I might not hit the word count with each of these reviews. Some books lend themselves to more of a review than others. Annie John - 3/5 Stars Annie John is a short novel by the Antiguan novelist Jamaican Kincaid. Jamaica Kincaid is best known for her thoroughly … [Read more]
The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises.
The Towers of Silence This is the fourth and shortest of the four main volumes of the Raj Quartet. I plan on reading and reviewing the final work, which is a connected, but not direct volume, which is also short. This novels spends the bulk of its time focusing on the Laytons and their various … [Read more]
I didn’t love most of this. But I did love one part a whole lot.
Last year, I was surprised and delighted by When Dimple Met Rishi. It was such a refreshing and adorable YA romance. I was excited about Sandhya Menon and the way she represented strong, independent, intelligent women growing up in households of Indian immigrants. I loved the way she described the … [Read more]
The Alpha of Alphabet books
Animalphabet by Julia Donaldson is a very clever way of making an alphabet book. You start with a small “story” about an ant. And then find out what is bigger than an ant on the B page and so on throughout the book. There is none of that “A is for Ant or A = Ant. The End” to the style. The pages … [Read more]