Category: Books
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Patrin by Theresa Kishkan
Never before has a book—much less a literary novella—had such an impact on my sense of place. Patrin’s European travels as a young woman, her homecoming to Victoria, and then her journey to find traces of her family and heritage in Czechoslovakia simultaneously conjured within me an intense wanderlust, a fierce sense of belonging, and an acute…
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Landline by Rainbow Rowell
First I loved Eleanor & Park. And then I loved Attachments. And now I love Landline. I think it’s safe to say that I’m a fan of Rainbow Rowell. Big fan. Landline is funny, charming, sad, magical, mystical, hopeful, tense, and a little time-bendy. It’s about relationships—between husband and wife, mothers and daughters, best friends, boy and girl, girl…
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Quoted: All My Friends are Superheroes
Okay, there’s this thing you can do, a thing you can do like no other person on this planet. That makes you special, but being special really doesn’t mean anything. You still have to get dressed in the morning. Your shoelaces still break. Your lover will still leave you if you don’t treat her right.
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The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
As Rory Gilmore once said (in episode 5.5): I’m very into PG Wodehouse right now. And to think, before this year’s reading challenge, I had no idea who PG Wodehouse was, nor any idea where Jeeves the Butler originated. But now I’m quite fond of Bertie Wooster, his Aunt Dahlia, and the inimitable Jeeves. I believe I’ll have…
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The Girl who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
In my opinion Mr. Jonasson has a knack for three things: 1) Writing characters who make the best out of the absolute worst. Take, for example, Nombeko, the heroine of this jaunty little tale. She was born in a South African slum, orphaned at ten, run over by a car, practically imprisoned for more than a…
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Quoted: A House in the Sky
It was a lesson the world had already taught me and was teaching me still. You don’t know what’s possible until you actually see it. Amanda Lindhout is truly incredible. Her memoir was hard to read and even harder to put down.
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Friction by Sandra Brown
I initially picked this up thinking I’d slip it in under No.22 on my challenge, but since it’s probably the least explicit Sandra Brown book I’ve read (there are only like, three steamy scenes in 416 pages), I’m going to hold off until I find a book worthy of the Erotica genre. In other news, Friction is the perfect book for soaking in…
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The Love that Split the World by Emily Henry
I bought this book solely for the cover and I’m glad I did—Emily Henry really is a gifted writer. An imaginative time-bending teen romance, The Love the Split the World is jam packed with quick wit and sarcasm—which, of course, I love—and it kept me captivated enough to keep reading in the park well into twilight, until my straining…
Being Tori 