Even the circus freak side of my face-my damaged half-was better than the alternative, which would have meant death by fire. I didn’t burn to ashes. I emerged from the flames like a little phoenix. I ran my fingers over the scar tissue, caressing the contours. I didn’t burn, Mummy, I thought. I walked through…Continue Reading Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by…Continue Reading Need a New Read?
Apart from all the love she clearly still had for me, V seemed to be under the impression that I had wanted the relationship to end. Her breezy tone was so far removed from the V whom I knew that I wondered for a moment if she had been kidnapped and someone else was writing…Continue Reading Our Kind of Cruelty
Victoria: the Queen by Julia Baird When Victoria was born, in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would threaten many of Europe’s monarchies in the coming decades. In Britain, a generation of royals had indulged their whims at the public’s expense, and republican sentiment was growing. The Industrial Revolution was transforming the…Continue Reading What’s New?
‘Until that moment, she had always been there. No matter how much I appeared to have changed – how illustrious my education, how altered my appearance – I was still her. At best, I was two people, a fractured mind. She was inside, and emerged whenever I crossed the threshold of my father’s house. That night I called on…Continue Reading Educated
Chemistry by Weike Wang At first glance, the quirky, overworked narrator of Weike Wang’s debut novel seems to be on the cusp of a perfect life: she is studying for a prestigious PhD in chemistry that will make her Chinese parents proud (or at least satisfied), and her successful, supportive boyfriend has just proposed…Continue Reading Check Us Out!
It was a sweeping story of love and loss, life and death, and, above all, redemption. It was the story of a grand passion that had endured for more than forty years and finally found its happy ending. If you are ever in a mood for a book that feels like a warm, soft blanket…Continue Reading The Keeper of Lost Things
Come and see what’s new in the Blough-Weis Library Leisure Collection! The Impossible Fortress : A Novel by Jason Rekulak It’s May 1987. Fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin of Wetbridge, New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons are spent with his buddies, watching copious amounts of television, gorging on Pop-Tarts, debating who would…Continue Reading Latest Additions
“So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that’s easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. The second thing that happens is that we seek out facts that confirm what we want to believe-comforting facts, one that permit life to go on…Continue Reading Beartown
“And that was when she saw it. Had it always been there? That lamp glowing from within. How had it survived all these previous months? How had it held on? No matter, it was greater than her body, it was greater than all else. She laughed, for perhaps the first time since the night in the weaving hut, to…Continue Reading Girls Burn Brighter
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