Paper Airplanes by Dawn O'Porter
Bingo Square: Nostalgia (set in 1994, when I was 13) Flo is fifteen years old and living on the small British island of Guernsey, just off the coast of France. Flo's parents have recently separated and she lives with her mum, sister and brother. Her best friend, Sally, is mostly mean to Flo, … [Read more]
Rage by Bob Woodward
Apparently, it took Bob Woodward 3.5 years and close to a thousand pages to deduce that Donald Trump is unfit to be President. Good job, Bob. Here's a cookie. Like Fear, his other work on the Trump Administration, this is less a book with a narrative thread and more a collection of scattered … [Read more]
The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
I've gone on at length about how I find much of the stylistic elements of the Series of Unfortunate Events books irritating - the interruption of the text to define words in particular - so it seems like the ideal book to adapt. The gothic stylings of the story, sets, and trappings of the Baudelaire … [Read more]
The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy
Set in 1967 at a barely-fictionalized version of The Citadel, Conroy's own alma mater, The Lords of Discipline follows indifferent cadet Will McLean and his friends through a turbulent senior year. After surviving their school's infamously brutal plebe year, with it's torturous sweat parties and … [Read more]
The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket
Well, I liked this book quite a bit more than the first one, but given that it doesn't revolve around a guardian attempting to marry his barely teenaged ward against her will, anything would be an upgrade. Since Count Olaf has now been unmasked as dastardly, the Baudelaire orphans have been … [Read more]
