Holy shit, this book was good. It started slow and then just kept building and building until the breathtaking ending. It was recommended to me by an extended family member and I’m so glad I didn’t just blow them off and actually picked it up. I hope Newman’s other books are as good, because I plan on reading them stat. Renata “Ren” Ghali lives in a colony on a far away world, working as the settlement’s engineer. She’s a respected member of the community, but […]
My Big Ol’ Spoiler-Filled Review
Never Let Me Go is one of the strangest books I have read this year and in order to try to make sense of it, I’m afraid I’m going to be engaging in some plot spoiling. Actually, this may not be overly spoiler-y, as the reader figures out most of what I’m going to reveal early on in the novel. Ishiguro wants it that way, I think, because his characters experience the same thing. They know what is going to happen to them, and yet…. […]
I’m finally reading The Handmaid’s Tale
I liked all of these covers, so I added them all. For some reason, I had no idea that this book was published in 1986. It feels so so current. I wanted to read it before watching any of the Hulu series, which looks great. This will officially be my fifth Margaret Atwood book. I think I like her :) This book just tosses you right into the everday slog of being a Handmaiden. You wake up in a blank, meaningless room, put on your […]
Stepford Town, but not as clever.
I recently got off work a bit early (one of the many down sides of being a Fry Minion, you get sent home because of “labor costs.”) and having nothing to do but surf my phone, downloaded a reader (how did I live without one?) and started perusing my to-be-read pile, which is quite large. Wayward was one of the first books in the stack, (it was ahead of its prequel, even, which I have not read.) I’m used to starting series in the middle […]