Happy Belated holiday books for me! I was doing lots of holiday travel and this was a pretty nice welcome home thanks to Esmemoria 😁
A classical story that has a far too modern feel
I, Medusa: A Novel by Ayana Gray
Trigger warning for grooming and rape NTE was kind enough to send this requested book to me as part of the holiday book exchange. I was very interested in reading it because first of all, I love a retelling of a classic story from a different perspective, and second of all, I am VERY interested in the story of Medusa. If you are familiar with Medusa, perhaps it is from the story of the “hero” Perseus who killed her with help from the gods/goddesses. Medusa […]
Go Fish (Yes, this is a Buffy reference)
Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
The novel begins as Sade starts private boarding school in England. Early on, we understand there are things about her past that Sade is hiding. She is haunted by the ghost of a dead girl in her past, her mother committed suicide when she was 10, and her father was strict, keeping her locked up and homeschooled. The only reason she is at school now is because he died so she is making her own decisions. After meeting her roommate Elizabeth and Elizabeth’s friend Baz, […]
He paints like birds sing
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
This was actually my first Fredrik Backman but quite a few fellow Cannonballers mentioned this novel during one of the Zoom meet ups so I decided it was time to give him a shot (and then got distracted by other books). The story explores two timelines, 25 years apart. The present or later timeline (it’s a bit vague on specifics that would tie either timeline to a specific decade so when I say present, that’s just for simplicity) focuses on Louisa, a teen in foster […]
Great if you like Wes Anderson but unfortunately, I don’t.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
On a beautiful June day in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is taken from the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs to the Hotel Metropol. He enjoys the views of Moscow from the windows of his car. It will be the last time in decades that he is to set foot outside the doors of the hotel; the Commissariat, torn between Alexander’s nobility status on the one hand and his work as a revolutionary poet on the other, has sentenced him to house arrest. And so the […]
Better off sad than dead
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
It’s been said before, but with how popular the Hunger Games books and movie franchise got, and how many mediocre-to-terrible copycats they spawned, it’s easy to forget that there’s a reason the original trilogy was so successful. That reason being, Suzanne Collins is a really, really, really good writer. In this prequel, Collins has a tall order to fill. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes presents the backstory of Coriolanus Snow, the totalitarian president from the first three books. Villain origin stories are so tricky. You […]
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