Thank you to The Chancellor for these two books that I’ve been wanting to read! I want to try Brandon Sanderson and I hear Mistborn is a good place to start. I am also looking forward to The Bear and the Nightingale since it’s a retelling. Thank you again!!
Does any part of you still look at the sky and hurt?
Opal by Maggie Stiefvater
Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater
Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater
“She didn’t want this, she thought. She wanted to stop being afraid.. and she wanted a future that didn’t look exactly like her past. There had to be something they could do. This wasn’t living, it was just giving up while still breathing.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk “Farooq-Lane’s fist smarted as if it had just been smashed against a douchebag’s face, because it had just been smashed against a douchebag’s face.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk Spoilers for The Raven […]
A little love
Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall’
Around seventh grade I first heard about the Japanese American internment camp stories because my aunt is Japanese American. But it was not until I was much older that it clicked. My aunt, her siblings, her mother, and my cousins, not to mention her aunts, uncles and cousins would have been incarcerated. And while I was able to find a little here and there, it was difficult until the last few years to find things that were well done or interesting enough to keep me […]
What if the only survivors of the apocalypse were…boring?
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
Ish is the personification of that quote about “god grant me the confidence of a mediocre white guy,” except that he is even more assured of his specialness than usual, because he survived the plague that wiped out most of the rest of humanity. When he finally ventures out of his mountain cabin, civilization is dead and survivors are sparse. He adopts a dog and takes a road trip, looking for other people who are worthy of his company. Finding no one (California to New […]
when you don’t know where to start…turf the request to the infallible Malin
I have been wanting to try Discworld for so long, but sort of like Doctor Who, it’s just…a lot, for someone who didn’t grow up with it/around it (ducks to avoid the shrieks). What is a Discworld? How does one start? Where does one go? The things I hear about it make me want to read it so VERY much, but it’s like every white whale of a book x 1000 because there’s seemingly a thousand million books in this series. Is it even about a […]
Real villains
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
As of this writing/posting of the review for The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill I am only halfway through. I published before finishing as I had some ideas I wanted to put down as I was/am not completely sure why this book has critics excited. It is terribly slow, and the real action does not start to take place until the middle of the book. And then, when things are about to finally happen, the orphan that meets the Ogress is asleep with […]