At times you can feel Brown trying to differentiate his world and his story from The Hunger Games, but I was never able to stop comparing the two.
Review: Red Rising
Review: The Land of Stories
“The world will always choose convenience over reality. It’s easier to hate, blame, and fear than it is to understand. No one wants the truth; they want entertainment.”
Review: Wyrd Sisters
Wyrd Sisters is a delightful and spooky Halloween read that takes Discworld in a more political (but no less humorous) direction.
Review: Inda
I enjoyed every moment of this subtle and precise military fantasy, particularly because of its intelligent and complex characters.
Warbreaker Review
“War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres.”
Review: Manhattan Beach
Manhattan Beach is dense with research and carefully placed cultural references of the time, and the result is something that’s passable as historical fiction but shallow and disappointing as a Jennifer Egan novel.
The Sun and Her Flowers
“leaving her country/was not easy for my mother/i still catch her searching for it/in foreign films/and the international food aisle,” Rupi Kaur
Review: The Bell Jar
"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days." - Sylvia Plath
The Marriage Plot
“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.” ― Jeffrey Eugenides
Some Kind of Happiness
“I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. Maybe that is why, even after something has gone wrong, we spend so much time trying to fix it. Because we remember when it wasn't broken.”
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