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ok wow a bunch of people said this book was awesome but I was like "oh idk it's about monster hunting?? idk not my thing" but then I finally read it and wow!! it's so good!! It reminds me of A.S. King in the best way. NOBODY TOLD ME IT WAS ABOUT METAPHORICAL MONSTER HUNTING JEEZ.
I was just looking this title up and realized I forgot to add it on GR when I read it. Anyway, I'd loved the first book despite it being a liiittle more fantasy-y than I generally prefer. I struggled with this one because it had been awhile since I read the first one so I had to have the wiki open to refresh myself on all the fantasy concepts at play here. I've said it before, I'll say it again: series books should have "previously on"s!
I'd assumed this was a trilogy and was a little surprised when I got to the end and realized it was a duology. Like...I kinda wish for more space for the conclusion to breathe and see where these choices play out? HMM oh well.
I'd assumed this was a trilogy and was a little surprised when I got to the end and realized it was a duology. Like...I kinda wish for more space for the conclusion to breathe and see where these choices play out? HMM oh well.
Sunnyyyyyyyyyyyy
I want to re-read the whole series to date because I definitely didn't remember some details from the previous book? But I understood enough to appreciate the complexity of the journey. I just love these books!
I want to re-read the whole series to date because I definitely didn't remember some details from the previous book? But I understood enough to appreciate the complexity of the journey. I just love these books!
Not Our Lady Nora's finest IMO!!!
https://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/episode-188-brazen-virtue/
https://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/episode-188-brazen-virtue/
I scooped this up on NetGalley because I'm intrigued by roller derby--much like the author, dating back to watching the movie Whip It. Montesanti is a professor of writing as well as a roller derby player so this is a beautifully-written, compelling memoir that not only gives a lot of really interesting derby stories but also unpacks a messy, traumatic childhood.
This was fun for me because I think I'm basically the same age as Kendra so I enjoyed the reminiscing about LiveJournal/AIM and such, which is obviously not the main point of the book. I think at this point in my educational journey I'm not shocked by the microaggressions (and macroaggressions) Kendra experienced as a Black student at a prestigious, majority white boarding school, but I don't think it was trying to be, like, [b:Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents|51152447|Caste The Origins of Our Discontents|Isabel Wilkerson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1597267568l/51152447._SY75_.jpg|75937597]. It's her own memoir and her own changing perspective on education.
I think this would be a great Alex award book--an adult memoir with a lot of teen appeal, especially since boarding school is such an intriguing concept.
I think this would be a great Alex award book--an adult memoir with a lot of teen appeal, especially since boarding school is such an intriguing concept.
I'd read other works of Morrison's before but not this one, but I got tickets to see a production of the play version of it and figured I should try to read the book first. Feels dumb to be like "wow Toni Morrison is a great writer" but like, wow. Especially for a debut novel, just so powerful right out of the gate, and sadly still resonant.
(Reading it and knowing I was going to see it as a play, I kept wondering how the adaptation would work because the structure here is so specific and so much of the book's power comes from that and from the narrative voice. But it turns out that's why I'm not a dramaturg because the play was also very powerful just also different and ultimately I think more hopeful than the book. But both are very good imo! Hot take!)
(Reading it and knowing I was going to see it as a play, I kept wondering how the adaptation would work because the structure here is so specific and so much of the book's power comes from that and from the narrative voice. But it turns out that's why I'm not a dramaturg because the play was also very powerful just also different and ultimately I think more hopeful than the book. But both are very good imo! Hot take!)
https://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/episode-189-carnal-innocence/
Great news: Nora Roberts has grown as a writer since 1991.
Great news: Nora Roberts has grown as a writer since 1991.
When my book club picked this book I was like, "Uh oh! Sounds boring!" But then I kind of got into it and when a friend asked how I liked it, I was like, "It wasn't as boring as I thought it would be!"
Parts of it were defo still kind of boring and dry but I could actively feel it making me use parts of my brain that I hadn't used in awhile. Definitely something different than what I'd normally read. Would definitely recommend to someone who notices scientific errors in less-rigorous works of science fiction.
Parts of it were defo still kind of boring and dry but I could actively feel it making me use parts of my brain that I hadn't used in awhile. Definitely something different than what I'd normally read. Would definitely recommend to someone who notices scientific errors in less-rigorous works of science fiction.
I truly cannot explain the hold SJM books have on me. The world building is so shaky and yet so horny. Every single character has been engineered to have the most tragic backstory and yet also the most special abilities, which have to be constantly recontextualized when other characters' special abilities are unlocked. There are so many characters that I cannot keep track of any of them from chapter to chapter, let alone from book to book.
This Crescent City series is so bonkers because it's some kind of urban fantasy and I simply do not believe that SJM understand how technology works in real life. In this world the internet is unironically called "the interweb." In this world mermaids have underwater glass domes to protect their computers from getting wet. In this world mermaids also use otters to send mail.
I read all 800 pages of this in like a week, no notes.
This Crescent City series is so bonkers because it's some kind of urban fantasy and I simply do not believe that SJM understand how technology works in real life. In this world the internet is unironically called "the interweb." In this world mermaids have underwater glass domes to protect their computers from getting wet. In this world mermaids also use otters to send mail.
I read all 800 pages of this in like a week, no notes.