We’re back in Rome, where Detective Nic Costa gets drawn into the case of a missing 16-year-old American girl whose mother insists she was abducted by a mysterious man on a motorcycle in front of a bunch of disinterested Carabinieri. While few at police headquarters take the mother seriously—the girl’s been gone less than a day, after all—Nic suspects that something more is going on. For one thing, the girl is the spitting image of a girl abducted 16 years earlier, whose mummified corpse […]
Von-dairefool
Now this is a bit more like it. My Booker Longlist Forced March continues, but I had high hopes for this book before I picked it up. And they were, for the most part, met and met well. A novel of families who never talk to each other, even though three generations of one family are all squished into one tiny flat in London. Laura was married to Peter until he left her and she was forced to move in with three of his ancient […]
Spoiler alert, Beth dies (better put the book in the freezer)
I have a confession to make. I never read Little Women as a child. I KNOW. For someone who eventually latched onto Jo as, like, main role model number one (tied with, I don’t know, Elizabeth Bennet and Hermione Granger, probably), this is just unacceptable. I finally read it in high school, which I suppose means I actually DID read it as a child, but teenhood feels so much different than childhood, yeah? Plus, the only reason I read it, I’m fairly certain, is because […]
Junior Cannonballer Ewandini
I read This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall! because it was a Christmas present from my uncle. It looked interesting. It is the story about two friends who are foolish and are put into two different dorms at school. They are stuck two most annoying students in school and they will suffer nothing until they get into the same dorm. The main characters names are Bruno and Boots. Their headmaster aka The Fish, Elmer Drimsdale and George Wexford-Smith III. Elmer is a science geek. George […]
Because FBI Agents are Inherently Sexy–In Books
I’ve been a little disappointed in the last couple of books I’ve read by Julie Garwood, but she’s still one of my go-to authors. I just can’t give her up quite yet, so I picked up her latest book, Hotshot (2013) as soon as I was able to get my hands on it. I’m such a sucker for the strong, protective type and this tends to be Garwood’s favorite heroes, which works out for both of us. In Hotshot, we have Finn MacBain, an Olympic […]
Jr. Cannonballer Ewandini’s CBR 6 Review #1
Ewandini is 8 years old. His mother, Mrs. Julien, asked him questions and he answered them to write the review: I read The Phantom Tollbooth because my mum said it was supposed be a good book. The story is about a boy named Milo and this weird tollbooth appears in his room and then he gets whisked away into the land of Expectations. Then he goes on an epic quest and fights demons to rescue Rhyme and Reason. The main characters are a boy named […]