Placidia is seventeen when she meets Major Hockaday and when he proposes that very same day she says yes. That he is a widower and has a small son makes little difference to her. It’s 1865 and given the war there’s no point in waiting for a proper courtship and wedding. In fact, the very next day they set off for the Hockaday’s home. From there, Susan Rivers’s novel The ... Read More...
High School Trauma and Drama: Mini-Reviews
There are few people who look back on high school as the best years of their life and, quite frankly, I don’t trust them. These two novels encapsulate what may or may not be the truth of high school life in America today. Is it accurate? Dear God, I hope not, but I’m so far removed from that time that all I can do is share my thoughts on them as novels. Mostly, they made me ... Read More...
Small Admissions: A Novel
Small Admissions is an example of a book whose writing goes the same way as its plot. Confused? I know, it’s weird, but what I mean is that it’s the story of a young woman named Kate whose life goes off the rails when she is unceremoniously dumped by a boyfriend. She basically checks out of life in the most stereotypical ways possible, lingering in an almost catatonic ... Read More...
Five Books in 2016 That Didn’t Get Enough Love
The title of this post should say Five Books in 2016 That I Loved That Didn’t Get Enough Love, but that was a bit wordy and hey, it’s my blog so it’s understood I mostly write about books I love. Right? Anyway, I don’t make a point out of reading obscure authors, but I do enjoy reading out of the mainstream. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. These are five books I ... Read More...
Top Ten Favorite Books of 2016
Good morning, lovelies! Did everyone get what they wanted from Santa? If what you got is bookstore gift cards, then this post will help you spend them. It’s the end of 2016 and I’m back with my favorite books of the year. (Each title links to my review of the book) In previous years this has been two posts: Favorites and Favorite Debuts because I simply had too many book ... Read More...
The Mare: A Novel
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill begins when Velvet, a Dominican girl living in NYC, is eleven and ends when she thirteen, but her life experiences go far beyond her age. Through the Fresh Air Fund, she gets to go to upstate NY for a summer and stays with Ginger (“this blond lady…her face full of niceness with pain around the edges”) and her husband Paul. They live near a ... Read More...
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