"You do not write your life with words . . . you write it with actions" Patrick Ness.
Review: A Monster Calls
Review: News of the World
"Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage." ~ Paulette Jiles, News of the World
Team Review: Radio Free Vermont
“It was, he thought, a blessing to have lived out his life in a place that spun slowly like that yellow leaf, an eddy in the American rapids, a place that was shrinking when most of the country was growing, growing, ever-growing,” ~ Bill McKibben
Review: Without You There is No Us
"There's no freedom," he sighed, "They are watching us constantly. I know they are recording everything we say and keeping files on us, and I feel really bad all the time . . ." from Without You There is No Us.
Review: Eileen
“When poor people hear a loud noise, they whip their heads around. Wealthy people finish their sentences, then just glance back,” Ottessa Moshfegh
Review: Tehanu
While this still felt like Earthsea and the characters were as strong as ever, this story felt quiet compared to previous entries, in a way that I wasn’t totally grabbed by.
Review: Ready Player One
"No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful" Ernest Cline.
Our Best and Worst Reads of 2017
2017 was a great year of reading, and our very first year of Lit Lens! Thank you for following along on our reading journey and for telling us about your own.
Review: Autumn
"He's not just one thing or another. Nobody is. Not even you." ~Ali Smith, Autumn
Artful
Books themselves take time, more time more time than most of us are used to giving them. - Ali Smith
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