This is yet another book that has been touted as the next “Gone Girl” and/or “The Girl on the Train”. I can’t really wrap my brain around the comparison because it really is like neither of these in any way (from my perspective). Ani FaNelli is living a life quite different from the one she started from. Born to middle class parents and a mother who was always attempting to at least look as if she was upper class (even if it put the family […]
Put on Your Dancing Shoes
As a sucker for fairy tales, this book satisfied just about everything I’ve ever wanted in a book. A reimagining of the Twelve Dancing Princesses and set in the 1920’s, we follow the Hamilton girls who have been cruelly imprisoned by their father in their home. Disappointed that he has no male heirs, he neither has affection nor time for most of his daughters. He speaks to his eldest Jo (Josephine) imparting his wishes and edicts but other than that, he has no relationship with […]
Oh no! Not the Bees!!
The Bees follows a bee named Flora 717. Flora is in the lowest caste of the hive being one of the sanitation workers. She immediately finds out she’s different from the other bees, in that she can produce food and feed the babies with “flow” (something that most other bees can’t do). Curiosity typically is punished in the hive but Flora’s courage and loyalty to the hive is rewarded. She experiences things that most bees never get to do–move fluidly between the different castes of […]
Me and Earl Turned Me Into the Crying Girl
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a fantastic book. It’s a book about friendship, navigating the world of high school and yeah, it’s about cancer and loss. Now I just said that it was a fantastic book, I think for the first time in my adult life I’m going to utter the phrase, “I think that the movie may be better”. Greg has some interesting ideas on how to get through high school. It mostly includes talking to everyone but not becoming […]