5 posts tagged “literature”

The View from Mount Joy: A Novel

Lorna Landvik

OK, so I was having trouble seeing (due to eye surgery) so this was actually a book on CD.  I'm counting it as I was not able to see much of anything at this point.

We meet Joe after his father has died and his mother is trying to hold herself together for him.  Together they move to the town where is Aunt Beth lives and move in to her house.

He starts to work part time at a grocery store and deal with his thoughts and emoitions.  He starts a new high school and life starts to take off.

This novel follows Joe through the next 40 years of his life, the friends he keeps, those he loses, and the whirlwind force that is a girl he knew from high school breezing in and out as the years pass.

A great read for anyone who wonders what those other kids from high school are now doing, or just enjoys seeing a character grow into themselves.

The Almost Moon: A Novel

Alice Sebold

For those who loved Lovely Bones, here's the newest novel of the slightly off.

Helen is tired of taking care of her mother.  She is judgemental, mean, critical of her only child and agraphobic.

She is old and slowly detiriorating.  So Helen kills her mother.

This starts the emotional and mental roller coaster that is Helen's life with this woman who gave her life.

Enjoy the ride.

Note, I ran through the book in one day.  Amazing

Warrior and Witch

Marie Brennan

Sci-fi.  Fun, quick read, summer trash.  Gotta love it!!

This is an interesting concept.  When a baby girl is born, the mother (a witch)  the child's soul splits into 2 pieces, one of which is intorduced to the goddess by bringing the baby outside under the stars.

This half is trained to be a witch.

The other is a dolpelganger, whom the witch half is supposed to kill to gain her magic.

The main character, Mirei, is the result of combining the 2 instead of them offing each other.

Now Mirei must find the other dopelgangers and protect them.

Lots of action, descriptions of magic.  fun all 'round.

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

This was a very interesting novel.  I had a bit of difficulty keeping track of the names and titles as much of that was in Indian (a dialect I do not recall.)  I found it enlightening as there was a consistant explination of the differences in the castes in India and how they relate to on another.

Ok, so this is the last in the 3 that I sprinted through.  It was pretty cool, involved characters from both the first and second books, showed how the Faerie world and the human world (aka: Ironside) can interact.  I encourgage anyone who likes sci-fi and is looking for a quick read to pick one of these up. Plus the covers are neat looking.

Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale

Holly Black