Charles Yu’s collection Sorry Please Thank You is every bit as delightful and interesting as Third Class Superhero. If you’ll remember, I’m not typically a big reader of short fiction. However, there’s something special about Charles Yu. I…
I’m quite embarrassed to admit that I just finished The Hobbit for the first time. Ever. And here I consider myself a fantasy gal. It’s shameful, really. Anyway, I finally read it…and I loved it. I expected…
I’m not usually a fan of short stories, so it’s pretty rare that I actually muck my way through an entire collection. That being said, Charles Yu’s first collection, Third Class Superhero, was one of those…
I was browsing the shelves of Libreria Toletta in Venice, Italy, when this book caught my eye. Truth be told, I wasn’t keen on picking up another young adult novel just then, but there it…
This book is difficult to classify, which you may have gleaned from the long list of tags I’ve attempted to use to categorize it. GOOD FOR: people in need of a little imagination, readers with…
I was intrigued by Ransom Riggs’ novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children right from the start. I think it was the cover that did it. And the unusually long title. And maybe even the font.…
I was attracted to this book from the first time I saw its cover. I know it’s a big literary faux pas to judge a book by its cover like that, but I couldn’t help…
Johanna Sinisalo’s novel Troll: A Love Story was not what I expected. An interesting blend of magical realism and fantasy, this tale of interspecies love (I’m borrowing the term “interspecies” from Meg LeMay here) was both…
I picked up Catherynne Valente’s novel Deathless at the local Barnes & Noble. I was in a summertime reading-slump (oddly common for me), and the cover caught my attention. I read the first few pages…
Christopher Moore’s novel was everything I needed it to be: lighthearted, goofy, and heavily entertaining. It was a wonderful break from the more serious fare I’ve been reading lately. The vampires were young and immature,…