“Many people fear they might be crazy at some point in their lives, but it requires a healthy dose of sanity to think there's a chance you might be crazy. It's only when you think there is no chance whatsoever that you should be worries. Only you won't be worried because you'll be crazy.”
Review: Enemy Women
"Through the shutters, Adair could smell the latrines. It was like the Female Seminary of the Netherworld. A ladies’ academy in hell." - Paulette Jiles, Enemy Women
Review: Girl Meets Boy
Nobody grows up mythless… It’s what we do with the myths we grow up with that matters. — Ali Smith, Girl Meets Boy
Quest Dream Team
We've assembled our imaginary quest teams! Who would you choose?
Review: Life After Life
"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: 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
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
Review: The Power
“This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there. You can look at an empty space and see that something's missing, but there's no way to know what it was.”
Review: A Monster Calls
"You do not write your life with words . . . you write it with actions" Patrick Ness.