Seriously, how can it be that I have never before known about this book? This is exactly my kind of book, and I am in total love with its amazing greatness, and I am way, way psyched about reading the thrilling continuation of the story in its sequel, Robin. Basically there is little angelic Robin and her standoffish airhead twit of a mother, Feather, and Robin is sweet and innocent and only ever makes one friend, the manly gallant eight-year-old Donal, who is promptly whisked away from her because of how sinful and naughty Feather is, being supported financially by…
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Recommended by: A Life in Books, sort of, in that she said she loved anything by Sarah Waters and I randomly grabbed Night Watch when I went to the library. I don’t know if it’s just because I love Britain in World War II or what, but I really, really loved Night Watch. It was swell. I so much didn’t want it to end that I put it down and left it alone for ages before returning to it today and finishing it all up in one gobble. Basically it’s about four (Kay, Viv, Helen, Duncan – yes, four) people…
3 Comments“What I want to do,” said Juniper, “is an experiment in mental telepathy.” She hesitated, waiting for his reaction. There wasn’t one. “I know I have some telepathic abilities,” she went on more confidently. “I can go through a pack of cards, face down, and guess about fifteen correctly. And I often know who it is when the phone rings before I answer it. But I want to try mental telepathy with someone else. I want to try giving someone else my thoughts. Images are easier to receive than words. They’re more intuitive somehow, not so tied up in logic…
5 CommentsSuggested by: My darling Mum This was good. Ms. de los Santos writes most truthfully about relationships. The little girl was very interesting and intense. I’d write more but I’m too busy trying to get school things done so that I can watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer later.
Leave a Comment“When I was born, my mom wanted to name me Harmony Springs Young, and my dad wanted to name me Mary Frances young.” As she talked, she bobbed her head back and forth to the MTV music, even though the song was the kind of manufactured pop ballad she professed to hate. “So instead of naming me Harmony or Mary, they agreed to let me decide. So when I was little, they called me Mary. I mean, they called me sweetie or whatever, but like on school forms and stuff, they wrote Mary Young. And then on my seventh birthday,…
Leave a CommentRecommended by: I vaguely recall seeing the title and author of this book inside an IM window, so I’m going to go ahead and say that somebody told me about this book, but I don’t actually remember. Anyway it’s a reread. I’m giving it four stars because I enjoy it so much. It maybe doesn’t deserve it. I have lost all perspective. Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty pleasure. If you are an intellectual snob at whatever level, this book will appeal to you; but if you feel quite guilty about being such a snob, you might find that you can’t enjoy…
7 CommentsWhich can be read here, as it is out of copyright, and also this website is brilliant and I am all in favor of celebrating women writers. Recommended by: Box of Books (whom I owe an apology) I am sorry for griping abut The Semi-Attached Couple and its unbitchy nature. Emily Eden is very amusing, and in many ways she is quite like Jane Austen but bitchier. So I shouldn’t have jumped to conclusions even though Helen in The Semi-Attached Couple was very annoying. Now I have just finished The Semi-Detached House, and it was completely charming. Everyone in it…
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