I read:
Thoughts:
I read and reviewed a lot of my Netgalley books this month.
The Cruel Country by Judith Ortiz Cofer: Reviewed here.
A Place for Margaret by Bernice Thurman Hunter: When I was seven, my father bought me this book from a business trip. Now Tesfa is seven, I read it to her, another copy that I found at the Salvation Army store in town. I’d forgotten how earnest a book it is. Everyone is just so plum nice. And many of the side characters have ridiculously alliterative names (Archie Arbuckle, Matilda Maggotty, etc.). I can’t decide whether the book holds up or not. Tesfa liked bits and pieces of it, but didn’t seem eager for me to read the next two books in the series to her. I might anyway, because I can’t rightly recall what happens in the third book.
The Children’s Home by Charles Lambert: Reviewed here.
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari: I wasn’t going to read this, but then I watched Master of None last month on Netflix and the book was $10 at Chapters so I picked it up. It’s actually quite amusing.
The Night Parade by Kathryn Tanquary: Reviewed here.
The Blue Line by Ingrid Betancourt: Reviewed here.
Skeptic by Michael Shermer: Reviewed here.
A Cure for Madness by Jodi McIsaac: Reviewed here.
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill: Perfect level of spooky. Much better than the spookiness and eventual mess that this month’s earlier spooky attempt The Children’s Home made.
Unnatural Selection by Emily Monosson: Reviewed here. You would have thought though that the publisher would have picked a different name since Mara Hvistendahl’s Unnatural Selection was all over the feminist-blogosphere not so long ago.
The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen: I really wanted to adore this book. Instead, I feel like yelling Make up your mind — be supernatural or not! Almost worth it though for the ending (non-supernatural) Gotcha!
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso by Kali Nicole Gross: Reviewed here.
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt: Awwwwww. Such a sweet story. Like eating cotton candy without feeling sick afterwards.
Favourite book:
I cried. The whole way through this book. Like pretty much non stop for the hour it took me to read it.
Most promising book on my wishlist:
I watched:
I wrote:
Fixed up some short stories and sent them out, again. Worked on a story about a demon or a devil or something. His name is Larkspur because it is and I cannot change it now.