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welcome to my bookshelf
welcome to my bookshelf
Sitting on the beach, I felt like I was at the ranch where Russell keeps the cult, seeing Evie's longing for Suzanne, understanding the looming threat of violence (which does not occur til the very end)
Even though the story was set in the Depression, rarely did the historical period enter into the story. And maybe this was the magic of Britto's novel: it was the tale of one girl, and her longing for a bigger family, and her envy/love for her best friend.
As I got further and further into Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, I could not shake a feeling of increasing dread/terror. And that is the magic of this sci-fi thriller: you can't pull yourself away. The story centers on a mysterious "Area X," a quarantined part of the U.S. coastline, where teams of expeditions have been sent to explore.
The story is a work of historical nonfiction unlike no other. Sands weaves the story of his grandfather with the histories of the two men, Hersch Lauterpacht and Rafael Lemkin, who coined world-changing legal concepts: “crimes against humanity” and “genocide,” respectively.
At a dinner party one night, Ariel Levy is asked "Are you the Ariel who all the bad things happened to?"
A deeply original story set in New York where magicians battle for leadership of the "Unseen World" while dealing with magic that has gone wrong.
The narrator is unlikable and unreliable, and while that is not a bad thing, the lack of plot makes it hard to invest in simply anything that is happening in the story.
Ok. So. I stayed up all night to read The Royal We, a romance novel loosely based on the lives of Prince William and Kate.
