This was an interesting story about a diminutive servant girl in eighteenth-century Switzerland and France with special talents. I enjoyed it a lot because I liked the characters, but it was a bit odd.
Sunday, October 13, 2019
Little
Fiction by Edward Carey
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This was an interesting story about a diminutive servant girl in eighteenth-century Switzerland and France with special talents. I enjoyed it a lot because I liked the characters, but it was a bit odd.
This was an interesting story about a diminutive servant girl in eighteenth-century Switzerland and France with special talents. I enjoyed it a lot because I liked the characters, but it was a bit odd.
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Off to be the Wizard
Fiction by Scott Meyer
https://www.barnesandnoble.com
I can't really explain this book, but it was really good.
It begins with a nerdy guy called Martin in modern Seattle who discovers that he can somehow manipulate reality through his computer, and then ends up having to pretend to be a wizard in medieval England.
Yeah; you just have to read it to understand. There's a sequel and I'm totally getting it.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Murder is Easy
Fiction by Agatha Christie.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com
This is one of Agatha Christie's stories that does not use a serial detective, such as the ubiquitous Poirot, although there is a main character (Luke Fitzwilliam) who is a retired police detective, and he does eventually solve the case. Perhaps she was thinking of trying to make him a recurring character, but I think he's supposed to be a one-off. Luke is a good character; instead of a know-it-all detective type who reveals all in the last chapter, he seems to sort of stumble into the solution just in time.
It's a good mystery.
I also read recently by this author: And Then There Were None
It's a good mystery.
I also read recently by this author: And Then There Were None
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Hunger
Subtitled: A Memoir of (My) Body
Nonfiction by Roxane Gay
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This is definitely a memoir of the author's body, and hers alone. I think she's trying to make a statement about women in general and our love-hate relationship with our own fat-thin bodies, and I get that, but it doesn't really fly well. It's mostly a navel-gazing type of book, which is not my favorite style. Even though the navel she's gazing at does look quite a lot like my own, as a "woman of size" in a world that tells me to take up less space.
Really the only interesting thing in this book is what she says about the (annoyingly frequent) claim that inside every fat woman is a skinny woman trying to get out: "Yes; I ate that skinny woman. She was delicious but unsatisfying." HA!
Nonfiction by Roxane Gay
This is definitely a memoir of the author's body, and hers alone. I think she's trying to make a statement about women in general and our love-hate relationship with our own fat-thin bodies, and I get that, but it doesn't really fly well. It's mostly a navel-gazing type of book, which is not my favorite style. Even though the navel she's gazing at does look quite a lot like my own, as a "woman of size" in a world that tells me to take up less space.
Really the only interesting thing in this book is what she says about the (annoyingly frequent) claim that inside every fat woman is a skinny woman trying to get out: "Yes; I ate that skinny woman. She was delicious but unsatisfying." HA!
Monday, October 7, 2019
The Cellar
Fiction by Minette Walters
https://www.barnesandnoble.com
In this disturbing story, fourteen-year-old Muna lives a terrible life in the home of the Songolis, an immigrant family who have to hide her identity from the British police in order to report their son's mysterious disappearance. Under local police scrutiny, Mr. and Mrs. Songoli have to suspend Muna's beatings and attempt to treat as if she were a daughter.
But Muna is not their daughter; she is an orphan girl whom they have treated as a slave ever since they'd stolen her seven or eight years ago in their native country, somewhere in Africa.
This was a fascinating book, but very very dark.
I also read recently by this author: The Turn of Midnight
In this disturbing story, fourteen-year-old Muna lives a terrible life in the home of the Songolis, an immigrant family who have to hide her identity from the British police in order to report their son's mysterious disappearance. Under local police scrutiny, Mr. and Mrs. Songoli have to suspend Muna's beatings and attempt to treat as if she were a daughter.
But Muna is not their daughter; she is an orphan girl whom they have treated as a slave ever since they'd stolen her seven or eight years ago in their native country, somewhere in Africa.
This was a fascinating book, but very very dark.
I also read recently by this author: The Turn of Midnight
Friday, October 4, 2019
Caged
Fiction by Ellison Cooper
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/
A young girl's body is founded caged up in the basement of an abandoned D.C. house, and it's up to Sayer Altair, an FBI agent to find out who put her there, and how to save another girl in the same predicament who may still be alive.
This was an exciting thriller!
A young girl's body is founded caged up in the basement of an abandoned D.C. house, and it's up to Sayer Altair, an FBI agent to find out who put her there, and how to save another girl in the same predicament who may still be alive.
This was an exciting thriller!
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
The Last Romantics
Fiction by Tara Conklin
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/
This story begins in the future, but it is a story of the past. Specifically, it's about the past of a poet named Fiona Skinner, and her brother and sisters growing up in the eighties after their father's untimely death.
It was a really good character novel.
I also read recently by this author: The House Girl
This story begins in the future, but it is a story of the past. Specifically, it's about the past of a poet named Fiona Skinner, and her brother and sisters growing up in the eighties after their father's untimely death.
It was a really good character novel.
I also read recently by this author: The House Girl
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