Fond of: Tana French has great character development particularly Frank Mackey’s family. From the start it was obvious that things weren’t right in the head, it was dysfunctional family on high. Besides the fact that he is still mooning over his first love I really don’t have much to say about Frank. He did his […]
Today I am happy to host Karen Chase, author of Polio Boulevard who is sharing how her illness of Polio helped shape her imagination. As a tiny girl, my mother took me on the train from the suburbs of New York into the city where I took painting lessons in the basement of the Metropolitan […]
I’m so excited to host a giveaway for the upcoming film This Is Where I Leave You. Even though I’m a staunch believer in reading the book before seeing the movie, I’m really looking forward to seeing this film. When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, […]
Reviewed: The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth L. Silver The Death of the Black-Haired Girl by Robert Stone We Are The Goldens by Dana Reinhardt The Here and Now by Ann Brashares The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Kate Rorick
Sunday Post hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer is a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. We have moved and are settling in to our home in […]
Fond of: I thought The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet was a nice, modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Even though I know it was based on The Secret Diaries of Lizzie Bennet YouTube series it was still a little reminiscent of Disney’s Lizzie Maguire. I also liked how the author incorporated places into this retelling. […]
The Here and Now first reminded me of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. We begin at a ceremony to basically scare the shit out off youngsters with extreme rules and the creation of sameness. Hm, I vaguely questioned whether Ann Brashares was jumping off the stir for The Giver movie but eventually moved on. The Here […]
Black haired girl’s (Maud) form of death was unexpected That was the only unexpected thing Characters were as flat as cardboard yet I enjoyed the writing in itself The culprit for Maud’s death reminded me of Daisy from The Great Gatsby Teacher/Student affairs have been done before and The Death of the Black-Haired Girl didn’t […]
Good plot Older than they were: The teenagers acted like they were in college rather than high school, mainly exhibited through a “Risky Business” style party. Layla was annoying, and lived up to the Eric Clapton song of her namesake Didn’t particularly care for any of the characters except for Felix as he seemed like […]
The Execution of Noa P. Singleton is a novel of why. Why would Noa commit this heinous crime? That is the question that is hit over the head like a dead horse and slowly we see inside its cranium. Like breadcrumbs, the reader was fed the story of Noa’s crime bit by bit. Although as […]