It's hard to give a plot summary for this novel because I'm not sure there is a clear plot line. The narrator Marie gives us her life story, an ordinary life with love and loss, births and deaths, set in Brooklyn from her 1920s' girlhood through WWII, then marriage and family. It's about what … [Read more]
Eleven-year-old Lindelin "Lin" Rosenquist is mourning the death of her pet vole, Rufus, and miserable in her new home away from her best friend and childhood haunts. One dark evening, she receives a mysterious package labelled "Twistrose" with a rose-shaped key inside. She discovers that the key … [Read more]
Chicago wizard and now a Warden of the White Council, Harry Dresden, gets called in by his friend Sgt. Karrin Murphy (she got demoted after helping Harry out in the last book) to look into a series of mysterious deaths. A lot of women have been found dead around Chicago, in what appears at first … [Read more]
The now standard (twice is a standard, right?) disclaimer applies: as this is review of the third book in a trilogy, I'll probably be talking about the first two. "Divergent is the next big thing in YA fiction!" they told me. "Go read something with another kickass female protagonist once you're … [Read more]
The Year of the Flood takes place some time in the future, some would argue not very long into the future, and humans are in deep trouble. Sea levels have risen, humans are just holding on and genetically spliced Frankenstein species roam the earth. The story is connected to Atwood’s 1993 book Oryx … [Read more]
I'm not quite sure what I was thinking when I chose a 1300+ page book as my first Cannonball Read selection. … [Read more]
