“And what if I change?” It seems impossible that Varya’s future is already inside her like an actress just offstage, waiting decades to leave the wings. “Then you’d be special. ‘Cause most people don’t.” In 1969 the Gold children visit a fortune teller who can let you know the exact date of your death. While the foursome don’t share their fates with one another the information they receive shapes their futures. Benjamin divides her story into parts based on whose perspective the reader is privy […]
You’ve read this book before
I only post reviews when I am at a computer and I was traveling for five days sans computer so please pardon me if the books I read start to run together. I think they were all different enough that I should be okay? We’ll find out together. So. Rebel of the Sands. Young adult novel, world in pieces, teenage heroine – we’ve all read this book before. Of the various entries in this particular category, it is one of the better, but it doesn’t really […]
A book I apparently read while I was asleep
I think I liked this book? Maybe? Honestly, it’s been several weeks since I read it and I’m struggling to remember basic plot and characters. Which is its own sort of damning review in a way. Granted, I’m not great at remembering details of books, but they don’t usually get lost in my brain quite so quickly as this one seems to have. Strongly relying on the Goodreads summary for this one. Isaac Severy, mathematician and beloved grandfather dies in what appears to be a […]
Magic binds (but it doesn’t unblock my nose)
I know I enjoyed this instalment of the Kate Daniels series. However, I also know that my brain was virtually buzzing with the flu when I read it, so it’s all taken on the slight haze of a Night Nurse influenced dream in my head. If I remember correctly (do point out any flu medicine induced hallucinations), Roland is busy building a stronghold on the borders of Atlanta, sending Kate into conniptions. He’s also kidnapped Saiman, so the tenuous truce that has been holding between […]
“I teach you to be warriors in the garden so you will never be gardeners of war”
After discovering that both my CBR 10 reading list and my personal library have been far-too-heavily skewed towards male authors, I was determined to make a correction, and I set out on my first trip away this year with a too-long wishlist that yielded a bonanza of books by women, sixteen in all, pictured here. I could easily have come home with twice as many but kept myself under control if only to avoid overweight baggage charges. After dinner on my second night in London, […]
Knowledge is power, but it is a terrible power when it is hoarded and hidden.
The Girl Who Drank the Moon won the Newberry Award in 2017, and though it was already on my list of books I wanted to read, this pushed it up the pile when I went looking for the next book to complete my “read all the Newberry Winners” goal. (A goal I’ve been terribly neglecting). I had kind of a weird experience with this book, I wasn’t particularly impressed as I read it and then I reached the end was surprised by all these tears […]
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