“She was busy thinking about the concept of forgiveness. It was such a lovely, generous idea when it wasn't linked to something awful that needed forgiving.”
Forgetting (for real) and (maybe) forgiving in Moriarty’s What Alice Forgot
Top Ten Tuesday: Least favorite tropes
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is a freebie — we decided to talk about some of our least favorite tropes. A disclaimer: we don’t think tropes or “trope-y” books are by any means bad. Tropes are just storytelling elements, and they allow us to break stories down and find intersections between them. They’re a great tool for readers and writers.
The quiet brilliance of Fortunately, the Milk
"Spoons are excellent. Sort of like forks, only not as stabby."
Hillbilly Elegy: the biography that made a splash
“whenever people ask me what I’d most like to change about the white working class, I say, “The feeling that our choices don’t matter.”
Top Ten Tuesday:Books I loved but will never re-read
This list was tricky to put together because we both like to re-read, especially if we really loved the book. But thank you to That Artsy Reader Girl for the Top Ten Tuesday!
Team Review: The Fellowship of the Ring
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - J. R. R. Tolkien
Double Review: An Ember in the Ashes #1 and #2
"So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light," Sabaa Tahir.
Top Ten Tuesday: Characters that I liked from non-Favorite/disliked books
Top Ten Tuesday: Characters that I liked from Non-Favorite/disliked books This one is tricky, but we had fun thinking back through to books that we didn’t like (and probably vented a lot about).
April TBR
This was a pretty decent mont of reading for us!
Review: Heroes of the Frontier
"This was the common criminal pursuit of all contemporary humankind. Give my child an Ikea desk and twelve hours a day of sedentary typing. This will mean success for me, them, our family, our lineage." ~ Dave Eggers, Heroes of the Frontier
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