The court doesn’t want anything from you. It accepts you when you come and it lets you go when you leave.
The review equivalent of a shrug
The Lost Daughter opens with Brooke and Alex as seventeen-year-olds trying to deal with an unwanted pregnancy on their own via a home remedy late-stage abortion. Flashforward fifteen years and Brooke’s husband Sean can’t understand why Brooke doesn’t want to have a second child when they are so happy with their seven-year-old daughter Megan. Meanwhile, Alex comes back into Brooke’s life for the first time since high school, still grieving from his son’s recent death and bringing guilt from his actions fifteen years ago. He’s […]
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 […]
Oh, so there really is such a thing?
Yes, dear Meg, there is a tesseract. And I can’t remember what else I wrote for this post, but here’s the link to my review again.
CBR VI # 1
I like how when you read the book, it doesn’t really feel like the future. In fact, the setting seems positively retro with the bikes and the innocence, like the 50s or something. But its not. Jonas, he of pale eyes, lives in a Community where everything is regimented. Everything and everyone has its place and time. Your path is set from the moment you are born from your birthmother until the moment you are released from old age. Jonas is in the 11th year […]
Girls in this book are all named things like Dylan, Zadie and Tempest
Amelia didn’t jump. This is the text message Kate receives after her daughter Amelia allegedly jumps off the school roof. This prompts Kate to look further into Amelia’s death beyond agonizing about what more she could have done as a single parent working a bazillion hours a week as a lawyer. Amelia was a fifteen-year-old star student accused of plagiarizing an English paper, which the police attribute as the motive for suicide. As Kate investigates more, suicide becomes more and more unlikely. The story is […]
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