Thoughts on 'Lost and' by Jeff Griffin

I regularly scour Netgalley for poetry offerings, since I never get to read enough contemporary poetry. Around two days back, I saw 'Lost and' in the Poetry section but something made my hand hover over the Request button.This: Comprised entirely of unaltered reproductions of extraordinary found materials—drawings, charts, questionnaires, compulsively detailed letters, legal documents, jottings, journal entries, stunningly vivid and mysterious...

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Review: The Truth About You and Me by Amanda Grace

The Truth About You and Me Amanda Grace Rating: 4 stars Thank you Flux and Netgalley for the ARC in exchange of an honest review. Synopsis (Goodreads): Smart girls aren't supposed to do stupid things. Madelyn Hawkins is super smart. At sixteen, she's so gifted that she can attend college through a special program at her high school. On her first day, she meets Bennet. He's cute, funny, and kind. He understands Madelyn and what she's...

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Review: The Hypothetical Girl by Elizabeth Cohen

The Hypothetical Girl Elizabeth Cohen Rating: 4 stars Thank you, Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review Synopsis (Goodreads): Love meets technology with a dash of quirk in this collection of highly original short stories An aspiring actress meets an Icelandic Yak farmer on a matchmaking Web site. An online forum for cancer support turns into a love triangle for an English professor, a Canadian fisherman, and an...

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Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake

Girl of Nightmares Kendare Blake Rating: 5 stars It's over? So soon? Already? Nooooo! I want more Anna! I want more Anna and Cas! No? Okay. =( Anyways, I ate this book up yesterday and oh-my-bloody-heart-and-soul, what an amazing treat it was. Tormenting, exciting and downright adrenaline pumping. I could almost feel as if I was a part of everything that was happening to Cas and Anna.  Also, the surprises at the end were so good. It...

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Finishing Manon Lescaut

I did it! I completed the drab, boring, infuriatingly annoying book I was supposed to read for The Fiction of Relationship. Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost is an Eighteenth century French novel highlighting class issues, and love of the most weirdest kind. At the end of the week, we are supposed to write an analytical essay on the novel, choosing whatever thesis we wish. Here's part of mine: Manon: A drug for the Chevalier Doesn't it seem a little weird that both the main characters of 'Manon Lescaut' by Abbe Prevost were supposed to follow...

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Being Possessed

My nails need to be trimmed Rain, a bag of chips and a good book = A perfect day. I'm currently reading Possession by A. S. Byatt and there's only one word you can use to describe it. BEAUTIFUL. The narrative is so enchanting, so captivating. Here's the synopsis: Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant...

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While Reading Manon Lescaut

Let me make it perfectly clear from the get-go that I really don't enjoy reading 18th century French Literature, mainly because I can't read them in French, and translations simply take away the real beauty of words. I'm currently reading Manon Léscaut by Abbe Prévost for a coursera course titled 'The Fiction of Relationship' (Brown University). It isn't a long read, a mere 192 pages BUT the story could have been told in half as much, I...

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