Let me start off by saying that I have read a lot of Jane Yolen (and I don’t just mean her How Do Dinosaur series, although it is one of my daughter’s favorites.) I like that what she writes is not necessarily what you expect and that there are a lot of fantasy and magical realism elements in her writing. And several of these stories are just creepy enough to make you uncomfortable. The first … Read More “The Midnight Circus by Jane Yolen” »
Category: Science Fiction
What would you do to save your child? The answer, always, is anything. This book was magical and sad and beautiful, and full of love, and I just wish these characters were real. Oh, and did I mention, there’s also time travel? Carly Sears just lost her husband in Vietnam, and now she’s found out that their unborn daughter has a terminal heart defect, and it almost breaks her. But, then, her kind but somewhat … Read More “The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain” »
I’m not sure what I just read, but I’m not sorry I read it. It was definitely strange reading about someone living through other historical pandemics while living through one in our own time, but I think that made it even better. Cora lives all alone on the abandoned North Brother Island, within view of Rikers Island, in rotting buildings that were part of the now abandoned Riverside Hospital, which historically held people with a … Read More “The Vines by Shelley Nolden” »
When someone asks me what my favorite genres are, I usually don’t include science fiction — but lately, each time I sit down to read a science fiction book, I always enjoy it more than I think I’m going, and this one is no exception. Sometime in the future of our planet, June is an absolutely brilliant young girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut like her uncle, whom she lives with after the death … Read More “In the Quick by Kate Hope Day” »
This book was just wild. I’m not sure I’ve ever read anything quite like this, but I really enjoyed it and can’t wait to read more by this author. Aiden Bishop is trapped in a time loop with no idea who he is or why he finds himself inhabiting the body of one person after another — eight in total. All he knows is that Evelyn Hardcastle will die at the end of the day … Read More “The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton” »