I don’t know anything about the painter, Vermeer, whose life this book is built around. Paintings and poetry aren’t really my forte. But the way the author describes each scene made me wish the book would never end. She also had a way of describing people’s motivations behind their actions in a way that is…
Month: April 2020
April 2020 — A Wrap-Up
LIFEL1K3 by Jay Kristoff You’ll find the review here. The Program by Suzanne Young I require more than a bone-chilling atmosphere where teenagers have some sort of sword hanging over their heads or another from my reads these days. This 400-pager failed to deliver that. Teenagers are committing suicide after becoming depressed, making the issue a global…
April 2020 — Netgalley Reads
Death in Delft by Graham Brack This is going to be a long one. Find my ravings here. Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn What I Didn’t LikeWhen you read the blurb for this book, you go in expecting powers. I did and there wasn’t much super about the three protagonists. So, there’s…
The Lifelessness of The Book, Lifelike by Jay Kristoff
In which I review my first Jay Kristoff read.
Puddin’ Has Much More Likable Protagonists & A Body Positive Story to Tell
If you’ve been keeping up, the first book in the Dumplin Duology was a train wreck. This one, though, was a nice read. Here are some reasons why: The first protagonist, Millie, is the girl whom Willodean used to consider too fat. She’s refreshing in a way that Will failed to be. Millie accepts her…
Double Feature — Book & Movie Review of Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy #booksandchai
I picked up this book, thinking I’d get a body-positive message out of it. But it fails on that account. A fat girl who cringes at other fatter girls — even while coming to their aid against bullies — and makes a mockery out of the one thing that she was going to use to…
Forays into the Enderverse
First Meetings in Ender’s Universe by Orson Scott Card This anthology seemed like the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel that this series has become. That’s because, in it, we find some of the humor that made the previous books sparkle. It also shows us how long the military had been planning to reap…
March 2020 — Netgalley Reads
Something is Killing the Children Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV What I Liked: The art is lovely. I loooove all the scenes when Erica Slaughter pulls her mask on and proceeds with some ass-kicking. The way the grief and how it makes different people react differently is depicted was also done well. Survivor’s guilt and…
