Ever since I first read Icarus Girl last year, Helen Oyeyemi has skyrocketed to the top of my 'favorite authors' list, and I've spent more than a little bit of time enthusiastically recommending her to every single person I know. Due to this greatness of hers, I've spent the past year working my way through her entire… Continue reading A Definitive Ranking of Helen Oyeyemi Books
Tag: book review
White Oleander: Review
Blog pact default! Shane and Anne both got a little distracted camping and didn't put up their posts, the weasels. So here I am, squeezing in a post just before leaving for the weekend. Luckily, I just finished reading a book! Like, literally just finished, about ten minutes ago. The book was this one: White Oleander, by… Continue reading White Oleander: Review
The Book of Disquiet
Usually I'm one of those people who can't not finish a book once it's been started. Even if I can't stand the book and think it's pretentious and awful, I have to get to the end or I feel like I didn't give it a fair shot. Recently, I started reading a book called The Book… Continue reading The Book of Disquiet
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Apparently this is a book blog now, because a solid 50% of my posts these days are just book reviews. I've been reading a lot. Can you tell? Today the book is The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie, an author whom my good friend Emily simply worships, but whom I have taken some time… Continue reading The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Zahrah the Windseeker
It's been a hot second since I've read a YA book (the last one was Piratica in April, and it was both terrible & not worth discussion). I like to use them as palate cleansers between more hefty books, not because I think YA is frivolous, but because the writing itself tends to be less dense and… Continue reading Zahrah the Windseeker
M.M. Jordahl 