Princess Academy by Shannon Hale My kid said this was good, and assured me it wasn’t anything as cutesey as the Princess Diaries. It is a coming of age novel involving girls in a somewhat fantasy/middle-ages world, but it doesn’t feel like it’s in McFantasyland the way I’d feared, even though the premise sounds pretty …
Tag: coming of age
Jul 30
Book Review: My Absolute Darling
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent This is a book I expect to be thinking about for a long time. I’m rating it highly mostly because of its uniqueness, both in content and writing style. It has some flaws, but the strength of its main character and the lush descriptions made up for it. You …
Aug 25
Book Review: Scumble
Scumble by Ingrid Law This is a charming middle-grade fantasy about a boy in a magic-wielding family finally getting his own “savvy” on his 13th birthday. Ledger (all the kids in the family have bizarre names) hopes that he will become a super-fast runner, the track star that his father hopes for. Instead, his talent …
Dec 30
Book Review: Go Set a Watchman
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee I was really excited about this book because, like many people, I read To Kill a Mockingbird and thought it was brilliant. It always seemed a mystery to me that a writer could write one book, and only one book, and have it that good. Well, some of …
Dec 01
Book Review: Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro I read THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, and was blown away by how spot-on the English butler felt, so I picked this up, having no idea what it was about. It took me a good half a chapter before I realized there was anything science-fiction or dystopian about …
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