I feel like I start every Insanity book with “I have no idea what’s happening”, or something along those lines. It’s just true for every one of them. Alice travels backwards and forwards in time. She’s trying to prevent the main thing that started all of this madness – the bus accident. The beginning of book 1 talks about Alice going to the Radcliffe Asylum because she crashed a bus and killed all of her classmates (including her boyfriend). Alice travels forward in time to […]
Another Alice story…
I’m not really sure where to begin with this book. It’s super weird, but kinda fun at the same time. I’m nearly positive I liked it! It was a quick read too. There’s a while bunch of other books in the series, so I’m definitely continuing on with Alice’s tales. So I’ll just start where the book starts. There’s a murder of a girl at Oxford University, and it looks like the Cheshire Cat did it. Like this guy: From Alice in Wonderland. Except in […]
This book had purple font!!!!
Rating: 4.0/5 Summary: Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of plants and insects and in order to shut them up, she makes collages of them. She also fears that she is going insane, since all her female relatives have been committed to asylums. When her father is going to take excessive measures to treat her mother, Alyssa makes her own decision to find wonderland. However, when she ends up there, with childhood friend jeb, it is not at all what it seems to be. I liked […]
The Woman Upstairs. You wouldn’t like her when she’s angry.
This novel appeared on several 2013 “best novels” lists and it seems to fit into a genre that’s very popular these days, featuring a narrator whose truthfulness and mental well being are unclear. As I read, I was reminded of novels like The Other Typist and The Dinner, but The Woman Upstairs carves out its own place. The narrator comes across as abrasive yet sympathetic, a flawed human deserving compassion and yet somewhat self-involved, too. This contradiction compelled me to stay with the story and find out […]