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15-year-old Pearl lives with her mother in a small house on her uncle’s property in Fallbrook, California. She is used to hanging out with her cousin Robbie and her Uncle Hoyt, an avocado farmer using both legal and illegal immigrant labor to work his ranch. When Pearl spots Amiel, a young migrant miming and juggling in the [...]
It wasn’t until after I’d read Audrey Niffenegger’s novels The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry that I found out she was also an illustrator and graphic novelist. She has two earlier “novels-in-pictures” The Adventuress (which I’ve since read) and The Three Incestuous Sisters. The Adventuress was really, really strange, but still I picked up a [...]
Purportedly a love story of epic proportions, the circus is arguably the main event in The Night Circus, Erin Morganstern’s whimsical and wildly descriptive debut novel. Le Circque de Rêves (as it is called) is a mysterious traveling circus which never announces its arrival, but instead appears suddenly, opening its doors at nightfall and closing them at dawn. A mystical place, designed completely in [...]
Dick Young has always had an uneven relationship with scientist friend, Magnus Lane – he basically does what Magnus says, no matter how much he might grumble. So when when Magnus offers him the use of his house in the English countryside and wants him to take a strange potion, Dick is quick to try [...]
It is 1980 and Jane, who has just graduated head of her Harvard class, is given the opportunity to meet with a wealthy writer (twenty plus years older than she) for career advice. After the two hit it off, Jane leaves her boyfriend in Vermont and moves to New York to pursue a relationship with [...]
I’m usually not one for spoilers but be warned, I don’t really hold anything back here. If you haven’t read Jane Eyre, you might want to stop here. Orphaned and packed off to a charitable educational institution by an indifferent relative and benefactress, Jane Eyre has rarely experienced feelings of belonging or having the comfort [...]
When a plane lands at JFK with all the crew and passengers apparently dead but with no indications as to what could be the cause, the CDC is mystified. Nervous government officials would like to pretend that all is okay, but Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, head of the biological threat team, knows that something is terribly [...]
Cara Lange has never found high school easy. She moves abruptly, just in time for her freshman year, but never manages to carve out a niche for herself. Plus, she misses her best friend Zoe, with whom she did everything. The latest run- in with kids at school has them making fun of a choking incident [...]
Antoinette Cosway has taken some hard knocks in life. Her father is dead and she lives on a deteriorating plantation with a mother who is most likely suffering from severe depression and just a few remaining servants, one of whom may be be a voodoo priestess. Mother and child are despised on the island, and [...]
I first heard about Laura Lippman when Trish from Hey Lady read What The Dead Know, and loved it so much that she started the Laura Lippman Reading Challenge. Since then I have read countless reviews on book blogs full of veritable plaudits on Lippman’s work. I love a good mystery and I am always [...]
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