unqualified opinions from a person with no literary background
If anyone ever finds my Kindle, they are going to be horrified by the amount of embarrassingly non-age appropriate fiction on there. I'm serious. I live and die for books that sound like they're written for thirteen year old girls. I also have a frightening amount of romance novels that I downloaded because A. they were... Continue Reading →
December Park by Ronald Malfi was far better than I was expecting it to be. Mostly because I definitely judge a book by its cover, and it has one of the uglier covers I've seen. Design aside, December Park was a pretty solid read. But reader beware: this one was lengthy. I didn't mind it much because... Continue Reading →
I adore Neil Gaiman. I hadn't read any of his books until early last year, and still haven't read many of them, but every one I have read has been everything I'd hoped it would be. I won't go into a lot of detail about the plot of this one. Some of the reviews I... Continue Reading →
"In the near future, somewhere in rural Colorado... If Zoey Ashe had known she was being stalked by a man who intended to kill her and then slowly eat her bones, she would have worried more about that and less about getting her cat off the roof." That is the first sentence of Futuristic Violence and... Continue Reading →
A Man Called Ove is about a curmudgeon of an old man who hates everyone and everything that does not act or work the way he wants them to. He sees the world in black and white, right and wrong, useful or useless. He spends his days running through routines that have been set for years and... Continue Reading →
Those who pass up this book because it looks like it was written for fourteen-year-olds are really missing out. I first heard about Eleanor and Park from my mother, who told me I absolutely had to read it. My mom typically reads books about women struggling to survive in East Asia or queens getting their heads cut... Continue Reading →
This book seriously messed with my head. Maybe it's just been a little too long since I took a science class, but if you ask the people on Amazon.com, it messed with their heads too, so I know it's not just me. "Dark Matter" tells the story of Jason, once aspiring physicist, current mediocre physics... Continue Reading →
The Road by Cormac McCarthy has some seriously mixed reviews on Goodreads. This surprises me, considering it's won several awards and was made into a movie in 2009. You're probably like, "why are you reviewing a book that was published 10 years ago? Who even cares?" Whatever, dude. I've never read it, it always pops up... Continue Reading →
My initial thought when beginning Poison Study was that it was definitely going to be a hit or miss. Luckily, it was closer to a hit for me. Although Poison Study may not be the most sophisticated book, for YA fantasy it was surprisingly good. Yelena is a teenage girl in jail for murder, something she openly admits to. Unapologetic for... Continue Reading →
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