Tag: young adult
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In Progress: Empty Theatre and Yara
One via ereader, the other via paperback. I’ve done very little except read the last couple days. It has been great fun, but also a bit frustrating — I’m making up for the exhaustion of the last few months at work, and I keep feeling like I should have more energy to do more day-to-day.…
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My Candlelight Novel by Joanne Horniman
I liked this follow-up to Secret Scribbled Notebooks quite a lot, though I do think it pales in comparison!! After 15 years of owning and reading Secret Scribbled Notebooks, I found it on Goodreads and read through a few reviews. One mentioned the “follow-up.” I was shocked. 15 years of being a fan and I…
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Growing Up
Really, really happy with the two books I just read, which represent two utterly different experiences of girlhood and growing up. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein I thought this book was utterly marvelous. It made me re-download The Heart is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers — that’s the sort…
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Fantasy interlude
These both really hit the spot. Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde to get killed. “A stylish tale [that] addresses both fantasy gaming and censorship.” (New York Times Book Review) From Edgar Award–winning author Vivian Vande Velde comes a rollicking story that puts a high-tech twist on the classic medieval fantasy-adventure. In the virtual reality…
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The Bridges by Tarjei Vesaas
This was an absolutely remarkable, very grim book. I don’t read a whole lot from Northern Europe or Scandinavia, so the tone was a sharp turn from the Mediterranean novels that have consumed me recently. The Bridges follows two young adults on the precipice of adulthood. Both 18, Aud and Torvil live next door to…
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February and March : light on books
Terrible months for reading, in terms of quantity. But two marvelous books. In February I finished Zadie Smith’s Swing Time and adored it. I also read an advance copy of Ponyboy which sadly did not share the same fate… In March, a single library book I loved: Despised and Rejected by Rose Allatini.
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Final January Read: a graphic novel!
I sat down and read Thieves by Lucie Bryon last night in a fit of anxiety. Honestly, my typical reading speed is fast and I like to skim books, so normally my relationship to graphic novels is strained. But the art in this one is so beautiful, with spreads that break through normalcy and enter…
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Just finished: Red Glove and Black Heart
Well, that’s it for Holly Black until she comes out with a new book. Such is life.
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Just Finished: White Cat, by Holly Black
No one is surprised. I am glad to have these in the background of my life as I read other things. I worry about what is going to happen once I run out of Holly Black books. Might have to spend more time on social media again, ha ha.
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Just Finished: The Darkest Part of the Forest
You’d never guess. This one takes place in the same universe as the other trilogies, and is such a full story of twists and turns it reminds me of the first book, Tithe. A few plot points were explained instead of intuited through the plot, but otherwise this was a perfect Holly Black book in…