*I received my copy from Hachette Book Group in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Dead Lands Author: Benjamin Percy Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: April 2015 ISBN: 9781455528240 Synopsis from Goodreads: In Benjamin Percy’s new thriller, a post-apocalyptic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark saga, a super flu and nuclear fallout haveContinue reading “Review: The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy”
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Review: Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman
*I received this book on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Shadow Scale Author: Rachel Hartman Publisher: Random House Children’s Books Publication Date: March 2015 ISBN: 9780375866579 Synopsis from Goodreads: The kingdom of Goredd: a world where humans and dragons share life with an uneasy balance, and those few who are both human andContinue reading “Review: Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman”
Review: The Illuminations by Andrew O’Hagan
*I received my copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Illuminations Author: Andrew O’Hagan Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, a division of Random House Canada Publication Date: March 3, 2015 ISBN: 9780771068331 Synopsis from Goodreads: Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearingContinue reading “Review: The Illuminations by Andrew O’Hagan”
Review: The Half-Brother
Title: The Half-Brother Author: Holly LeCraw Publisher: Doubleday Canada, a division of Random House Canada Publication Date: February 17, 2015 ISBN: 9780385531955 Synopsis from Goodreads: When Charlie Garrett arrives as a young teacher at the shabby-yet-genteel Abbott School, he finds a world steeped in privilege and tradition. Fresh out of college and barely older than theContinue reading “Review: The Half-Brother”
Review: A Spool of Blue Thread
Title: A Spool of Blue Thread Author: Anne Tyler Publisher: Bond Street Books Publication Date: Feb. 10, 2015 ISBN: 9780385683425 Synopsis from Goodreads: “It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon.” This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family–theirContinue reading “Review: A Spool of Blue Thread”
Review: The Library at Mount Char
*I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Library at Mount Char Author: Scott Hawkins Publisher: Crown Publication Date: June 16, 2015 ISBN: 9780553418606 Synopsis from Goodreads: Carolyn’s not so different from the other human beings around her. She’s sure of it. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak.Continue reading “Review: The Library at Mount Char”
Review: One Hundred Days of Rain by Carellin Brooks
Title: One Hundred Days of Rain Author: Carelling Brooks Publisher: BookThug Publication Date: March 2015 ISBN: 9781771660907 Synopsis from cover: In prose by turn haunting and crystalline, Carellin Brooks’ One Hundred Days of Rain enumerates an unnamed narrator’s encounters with that most quotidian of subjects: rain. Mourning her recent disastrous breakup, the narrator must rebuildContinue reading “Review: One Hundred Days of Rain by Carellin Brooks”
Review: A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
Title: A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing Author: Eimear McBride Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada Publication Date: September 2014 ISBN: 9781476789026 Synopsis from Goodreads: Not so much a stream-of-consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and chaotic sexuality of a vulnerableContinue reading “Review: A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing”
Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin Author: Lionel Shriver Publisher: Harper Perennial Publication Date: 2003 ISBN:9780061124297 Synopsis from Goodreads: Eva never really wanted to be a mother – and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher whoContinue reading “Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin”
Review: The Universal Bureau of Copyrights
Title: The Universal Bureau of Copyrights Author: Bertrand Laverdure Translator: Oana Avasilichioaei Publisher: BookThug Publication Date: October 2014 ISBN: 9781771660525 Synopsis from Goodreads: From multidisciplinary artist Bertrand Laverdure comes UNIVERSAL BUREAU OF COPYRIGHTS, a bold, strange, and addictive story that envisions a world where free will doesn’t exist, and an unnameable global corporation buys and sellsContinue reading “Review: The Universal Bureau of Copyrights”
Worn Pages and Ink 