I’ve never been a serious graphic novel fan, but once in a while hear of one that sounds up my alley. I think this is one. It’s pretty cool. It’s set in two different places/time periods, and features two main characters: 1920s Hollywood, and Pearl, a young aspiring actress who’s ambitious and perhaps not too wise to the ways of the world, and 1850s (or so — I’ve already returned the book to the library and can’t remember) old west, featuring Skinner Sweet, an outlaw. […]
These ‘boots are made for killin’.
Yay for another YA dystopia book! No, really. It was fun, and I zoomed through it. There’s been a crazy-ass virus that, if you get it and live, does this thing where if you die later of something else, you might just come back to life. Or a version of you might — depending on how long you were dead, you’ll retain some amount of humanness. The shorter the duration between death and “rebooting,” the more human characteristics you’ll have as a Reboot. Reboots are […]
Maybe someday…
I am WAY in the minority with this one, I know, but it is not for me. I hesitated before writing anything about it, because I didn’t even finish it. I was fairly involved for about 50 pages, less so for maybe 50 more, and finally gave up about 3/4 in when I realized not only did I not care what happened, but also didn’t even find it particularly interesting. Probably, if I owned this, it would sit on the nightstand for a few weeks, […]
I feel like I am missing something.
I liked this book, first of all. It’s actually two novellas, and I enjoyed them both about equally. Yoshimoto’s earnestness? honesty? clarity? could have come across as sentimental, or something worse — cutesy, maybe, despite the rather deep themes of death, loss, belonging, place… But I digress. I just felt like I couldn’t quite “get” it. Since finishing, I’ve read a couple of really negative reviews of the translation. I wouldn’t have come up with that, but who knows? Regardless, there’s a sweetness to these […]
NPH, why you gotta be so awesome?
Choose-your-own whatever is clearly gimmicky, but it didn’t really feel like it. Perhaps because NPH is so insanely likable, I just thought, okay, yeah, I’ll go along with this. And it IS interesting — don’t you want to know what it’s like to hang out at Elton John’s house? Well, even if you don’t, I promise you you’ll find it entertaining. This crazy thing is written in the second person, which is fun, and for the most part you’re not really choosing your own adventure, […]
Slower than molasses in January
Okay, so that’s an exaggeration, but my grandmother used to say that and it’s nice to have an excuse to throw it in there. My problem with this book was that I wanted to be blown away by it, and while I DID like it, I only liked it as a friend. Barbara Vine is such a good writer, and that’s what made me even finish it, and while Gerald’s story is compelling and tragic, and Ursula’s too, I found it often tedious and wondered what […]
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