"Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future." - Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
March TBR
February was a big month for us both, and we have quite the pile to tackle in March!
Review: People Like Us
“Tell me. Tell me how I did it. Because from where I’m standing, it looks like you’re the one going to prison.”
Review: Three Tales
“The fields were empty, the river rippling in the wind; at the bottom long weeds were waving to and fro, like the hair of corpses floating in the water.” - Gustave Flaubert, Three Tales
Review: Every Heart a Doorway
A series of murders plague the Home and the murderer walks among them. This is the least intriguing possible aspect of McGuire’s unusual world.
Villette: Bronte’s lesser known but fantastic novel
“I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.” ― Charlotte Brontë
Review: Wizards of Once
“You do have to listen to the stories, for stories always mean something. The question that worries me is: WHAT exactly do they mean?” - Cressida Cowell
Is it right to write in books?
It’s a divisive question among book lovers. Some prefer to keep their precious tomes scribble-free. Others savor making notes in the margins and coming back to the memories later on.
Review: Saga Volume 8
Saga Volume 8 may be my last Saga book -- not for any glaring reason, but for not doing anything particularly meaningful.
Team Review: Winter
"Now it's the dark of early Christmas morning, the time before dawn, and this is the best time in the world for an old song about a lost child travelling in the snow." ~ Ali Smith, Winter