My thoughts about The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern are complicated. I wanted to love this book, I really did. But…I didn’t love it. And yet, I would still recommend it. Complicated, indeed.
The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern
Tag: Fiction
The Way We Fall, by Megan Crewe
It was refreshing to read a young adult book that does not involve a dystopian society, fairy tale creatures, or teens in impossibly adult situations. No, The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe is just about…a contagious, deadly disease.
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, by Beth Hoffman
The various motifs in Beth Hoffman’s Saving CeeCee Honeycutt have all been done before: tragic circumstances, a wide-eyed and courageous young protagonist, The South with its moss-covered trees and exotic flowers and buzzing critters, eccentric Southern women, including a wise, loving, tough-as-nails black housekeeper. No, there isn’t much to call “original” about Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, but I loved it anyway.
Her Fearful Symmetry, by Audrey Niffenegger
Audrey Niffenegger challenged our understanding of time and space in The Time Traveler’s Wife, and now she’s bending the norms of life and death in the novel Her Fearful Symmetry.
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
I just finished Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, and I feel like shouting “I LOVED THIS BOOK!” It’s one of those times when I wish I could talk to another enthusiastic reader of the book right away.
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