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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Anna Dressed In Blood by Kendare Blake

Anna Dressed In Blood Kendare Blake Rating: 5 stars Anyone who really knows me, would know about my obsession with blood and dead girls. So it was no surprise that I would want to read this book as soon as I saw it. (And the cover, oh, the cover!) Whether I'd like it or not was an entirely different story. I'll have you know, that I absolutely love Lenore. Poe's Lenore and Dirge's Lenore. But there are countless other books with dead girls...

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Thoughts On Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult

Picture Perfect Jodi Picoult Rating: 4 1/2 stars “Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?”  I've been a fan of Jodi Picoult ever since I was introduced to her work in 2006 (My friend lent me A Sister's Keeper, which I later ended up buying). She is one author who takes everyday issues and portrays them...

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I Am The Edible Woman

The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood Rating: 5 stars I am Marian. I am the edible woman. This was the only thought that came into my mind when I read the blurb given at the back of this book. Here, give it a read and I’ll tell how Margaret Atwood roped me in by choosing to make her protagonist so much like me. "Marian is determinedly ordinary, waiting to get married. She likes her work, her broody flat-mate and her sober fiance Peter....

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Talking Books

Obsessed with The Hunger Games all over again. Truly. Madly. Deeply. This book has a likeable female character. And that is saying a lot because I've never found a book in which I like the female protagonist soooo much. And the guys aren't half bad too. Peeta made me cry a lot throughout the three books. Peeta Anyways... While reading this book I remembered this one bus ride in which I had the misfortune of sitting next to a lecturer from...

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Random-Too-Lazy-To-Think-Of-Title Post

I eat books. Most of them are pretty trashy, glossy covers don't necessarily mean good stories. But I do have a selection of books that I keep reading over and over again. So what if I know most of the lines, some books just make you want to pick them up again. I have no idea why I'm blogging about this book. No idea whatsoever. I just signed up for an account on Goodreads and was adding books that I'm currently reading or have...

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Review: Origin (Lux #4) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Origin (Lux #4) By: Jennifer L. Armentrout Publisher: Entangled Teen Source: Gift The Short Summary: Katy has been trapped by Daedalus. Daemon is going to get her back, no matter what. The Summary (via Goodreads): Daemon will do anything to get Katy back. After the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he’s facing the impossible. Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her. Taking out anyone...

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Blog Tour – The Art of Letting Go by Anna Bloom (Interview + Review)

The Art of Letting Go Author: Anna BloomGenre: Contemporary RomanceMy Copy: Review Copy via AuthorGoodreads Summary (via Goodreads): One year. One woman. One Diary. One question: can you ever stop history from repeating itself and if you could what would you do to stop it? When Lilah McCannon realises at the age of twenty-five that history is going to repeat itself and she is going to become her mother—bored, drunk and wearing...

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