Book Reviews and a Little More…
Many years ago, I read The Crimson Petal and the White and fell in love with Michel Faber’s writing. I finally picked up this book, and it couldn’t be more different in subject matter. That’s not a bad thing! This was sort of a crazy read, but it wasn’t unpleasant. Peter is a pastor who has been chosen by a company called USIC to travel to a
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Ivy Gamble is a private investigator. Normally she spends a lot of time following around cheating spouses, so when a well-dressed woman appears in her office and offers her a chance to work on a murder case, it’s tough to refuse. But there’s another wrinkle — the possible murder happened at a school for magically-inclined children where Ivy’s very magical twin sister Tabatha is a
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When I fly through a book like I flew through this one, I have no choice but to give it five stars. Emoni is starting her senior year of high school, but one thing makes her different than her classmates — Emoni had a baby when she was a freshman. While all her classmates and friends are looking ahead to what college they are going
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Despite the promising title, this book landed solidly in the “ok” column for me. I was really expecting descriptions/experiences of many different syndromes, but despite mentioning a number of cultural syndromes, both Eastern and Western, the book focuses primarily on one. The focus is koro, or suo yang, which is a syndrome where the patient thinks their genitals are disappearing, or even being stolen. A compelling topic,
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