One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight. She starts to talk to him, a one-way conversation that soon gathers pace as an outpouring of frustrations, observations and anguishes. Two things shine through: her shy, unrequited passion for a quiet researcher named Martin, and an ardent and absolute love of READ MORE
Category: Fiction
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | UP A TREE IN THE PARK AT NIGHT WITH A HEDGEHOG – P. ROBERT SMITH
Benton Kirby is in a spot of bother… His life hasn’t exactly gone to plan. This is hardly surprising, however, as he never really had one in the first place. Armed with a philosophy degree, a dead fiance, a brother who drives Death around London in his black cab, and a girlfriend with a READ MORE
The Sunday Review: THE OUTSIDERS – S.E. Hinton
**Warning: There are some spoilers for the early plot of this book (though nothing more than in the book description on Goodreads), so if you prefer to go into a book with no idea what the major plot points are, don’t read this review!! According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J. FIKRY – GABRIELLE ZEVIN
Hanging over the porch of the tiny New England bookstore called Island Books is a faded sign with the motto “No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World.” A.J. Fikry, the irascible owner, is about to discover just what that truly means. A.J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS – STEPHANIE PERKINS
*** NOTE: Occasionally I read a YA book that causes me to feel the need to point out that, while I read and review a lot of YA books on this blog, I am, in fact, no longer a young adult. Most of the time this has little bearing on my enjoyment of YA READ MORE
The Sunday Review: PRODIGY – Marie Lu
Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Day is believed dead having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. June is now the Republic’s most wanted traitor. Desperate for help, they READ MORE
The Sunday Review: LEGEND – Marie Lu
What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic’s wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic’s highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is READ MORE
The Sunday Review: THE THOUSAND DOLLAR TAN LINE – Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham
Ten years after graduating from high school in Neptune, California, Veronica Mars is back in the land of sun, sand, crime, and corruption. She’s traded in her law degree for her old private investigating license, struggling to keep Mars Investigations afloat on the scant cash earned by catching cheating spouses until she can score her READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE UNCOMMON READER – ALAN BENNETT
From one of England’s most celebrated writers, the author of the award-winning The History Boys, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading. When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the READ MORE
The Sunday Review: GRASSHOPPER JUNGLE – Andrew Smith
Sixteen-year-old Austin Szerba interweaves the story of his Polish legacy with the storyof how he and his best friend , Robby, brought about the end of humanity and the rise of an army of unstoppable, six-foot tall praying mantises in small-town Iowa. To make matters worse, Austin’s hormones are totally oblivious; they don’t care that READ MORE
The Sunday Review: BEING HENRY DAVID – Cal Armistead
Seventeen-year-old “Hank” has found himself at Penn Station in New York City with no memory of anything –who he is, where he came from, why he’s running away. His only possession is a worn copy of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau. And so he becomes Henry David-or “Hank” and takes first to the streets, and READ MORE
Sunday Review: THIRTEEN REASONS WHY – Jay Asher
You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret. . . is to press play. Clay Jensen doesn’t want anything to do with the tapes Hannah Baker made. Hannah is dead. Her secrets should be buried with her. Then Hannah’s voice tells Clay that his name is READ MORE
The Sunday Review: THESE BROKEN STARS – Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
It’s a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | HORDE – ANN AGUIRRE
The horde is coming. Salvation is surrounded, monsters at the gates, and this time, they’re not going away. When Deuce, Fade, Stalker and Tegan set out, the odds are against them. But the odds have been stacked against Deuce from the moment she was born. She might not be a Huntress anymore, but she doesn’t READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | OUTPOST – ANN AGUIRRE
Deuce’s whole world has changed. Down below, she was considered an adult. Now, topside in a town called Salvation, she’s a brat in need of training in the eyes of the townsfolk. She doesn’t fit in with the other girls: Deuce only knows how to fight. To make matters worse, her Hunter partner, Fade, keeps READ MORE
WORST. PERSON. EVER. – Douglas Coupland
A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man, Worst. Person. Ever. is Douglas Coupland’s gloriously filthy, side-splittingly funny and unforgettable new novel. Meet Raymond Gunt. A decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst person ever: a foul-mouthed, misanthropic cameraman, trailing creditors, READ MORE
WILL GRAYSON, WILL GRAYSON – John Green & David Levithan
will grayson, meet will grayson One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two strangers cross paths. Two teens with the same name, running in two very different circles, suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, culminating in heroic turns-of-heart and the most epic musical ever to grace the high READ MORE
REALITY BOY – A. S. King
Gerald Faust knows exactly when he started feeling angry: the day his mother invited a reality television crew into his five-year-old life. Twelve years later, he’s still haunted by his rage-filled youth—which the entire world got to watch from every imaginable angle—and his anger issues have resulted in violent outbursts, zero friends, and clueless adults READ MORE