Isaiah Roby's Blog: MI Book Reviews, page 115
August 30, 2018
Emotions Explained with Buff Dudes
“You know how, since the dawn of humanity, great philosophers and poets have dedicated their entire lives to exploring concepts like love, life itself, logic, and sorrow? Well, those great philosophers and poets are dead now, so I win. — Shen
“You know how, since the dawn of humanity, great philosophers and poets have dedicated their entire lives to exploring concepts like love, life itself, logic, and sorrow? Well, those great philosophers and poets are dead now, so I win.” — Shen
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The Waiting Mortuary
“For seventeen-year-old, Sebastian Trawler the summer is supposed to mean parties, sleep, and hitting the beach with friends, but when his parents start to suspect he’s been lying about working at a local restaurant, he decides to take a real job that requires the least amount of effort. He finds it when he’s hired to work for an eccentric mortician who believes the corpses are moving around at night.
Watching dead bodies is supposed to be easy money but as Sebastian finds out there’s no such...
August 25, 2018
Byron in Love
By Edna O’ Brien
“Byron in Love – the nobility, arrogance, and sheer theatre of Byron’s life. Edna O’Brien focuses on the diverse and colourful women in Byron’s life. Its narrative core is the triangular relationship between him, his wife and his half-sister that brought him timeless notoriety” – goodreads
Published: 2009 (First American edition)
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Read and Review: August 2018
I have wanted to read this book for ages. It’s been floating in my TBR pile on my goodreads since I joined back in 2...
August 23, 2018
A Further Range
By Robert Frost
A collection of poetry by American Poet and four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Robert Frost.
Published: 1936
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I picked up A Further Range from my library. It would count for my “F” entry on my A-Z classics challenge for this year. I’m already more than half way done. I have nine books left (two of which I’m in the middle of reading right now) for the challenge.
Poetry is always hard to rate for me unless you absolutely can’t connect to it or it’s...
August 22, 2018
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother—her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother—tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to...
August 17, 2018
Sadie
By Courtney Summers
“Sadie hasn’t had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she’s been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.
But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie’s entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister’s killer to justice and hits the road following a few meagre clues to find him.
When West McCray—a radio personality working on a seg...
August 15, 2018
This Ecstasy They Call Damnation
“”The poems in This Ecstasy They Call Damnation walk a razor’s edge, bristling with intensity as they tackle the hard work of survival, both physical and spiritual. In this wide-ranging collection, Israel Wasserstein tells and re-tells myths, legends, Bible stories, and his own brilliant poems of Highway 54. The speedometer’s always broken in this life, Wasserstein reminds us, and how we cope with this knowledge, and this lack of knowledge, seems to be at the heart of this rich, sure-handed d...
Trans Teen Survival Guide
“Frank, friendly and funny, Trans Teen Survival Guide will leave transgender and non-binary teens informed, empowered and armed with all the tips, confidence and practical advice they need to navigate life as a trans teen. Wondering how to come out to your family and friends, what it’s like to go through cross hormonal therapy or how to put on a packer? Trans youth activists Fox and Owl have stepped in to answer everything that trans teens and their families need to know. With a focus on self...
August 13, 2018
Clubbing
By Andi Watson
“A spoiled, rebellious London girl takes on the stuffy English countryside in Clubbing. The crime: getting caught with a fake I.D. at a posh London nightclub. The punishment: spending the summer at her Grandparent’s stuffy country club. But Charlotte “Lottie” Brook, best known for her mile-high platforms, a bottomless itunes account and an unbridled passion for classic lit, will end up doing more than just serving time in country boot camp. In between avoiding the strange local...
The Nun
By Denis Diderot
” Diderot’s The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. A succès de scandale at the end of the eighteenth century, it has attracted and unsettled readers ever since. For Diderot’s novel is not simply a story of a...
