June 2008

Because I am fantastically biased towards Rick Mercer, I found this book utterly awesome.

If you can get past the 24-esque clock-flashing breaks where everything rewinds, and enjoy seeing the same thing over a couple of times, definitely worth it.

The Thirteenth Tale is a Gothic suspense novel narrated by Margaret Lea, the biographer of Vida Winter, a prolific and reclusive author, and her rightly secretive family.

Fingersmith is tragic from beginning to end – and not only because of the deficiency of sex scenes.

“There are millions and millions of people with mental problems. They work regular jobs, irregular jobs, they work at home, they don’t work, they’re married or single, they have kids or don’t, they do laundry and fall in love and have opinions and grieve their losses and, if they’re lucky, take their meds.” - pg 213…Read More

Let me begin by saying that any YA book that considers marriage a happy ending is on crack.

There is too much moping in this book.