A girl falls down in the Toronto subway; no one is sure if it's the result of chemical terrorism, hysterics, or just random. But as more and more people begin falling down, tension in the city rises and people start getting hurt in retaliation. Meanwhile, Alex is trying to hold his life together even as his old flame Susie-Paul has returned ( Read more... )

I tend to do fairly poorly with short stories and with literary fiction, so please take my post with a grain of salt, or many ( Read more... )

I found this in the YA section of my library, and I have to say, I am very confused by this classification. Even though the heroine is Celaya, who grows from child to teenager in the book, the book itself is a giant, sprawling family saga of the Reyes, encompassing about three generations and at least ten side stories ( Read more... )

I really disliked the first half of the book and was wondering why rachelmanija had recced it ( Read more... )

I first read this as an assignment in tenth grade, which was not optimal in many ways, one of the foremost being how tenth-grade boys will giggle at the mention of the word "fuck," particularly when it has to do with cows. The other is that Morrison's prose is very dense, so much so that I had a difficult time following it even now. Technically, it ( Read more... )

Rachel, a harried human-rights worker in London, learns that a Canadian student may have been killed in a protest in East Timor. What follows is the story of how she died and how the information about the protest is uncovered and disseminated. (As Helwig notes, the events are loosely based on the Santa Cruz massacre but definitely not a historical ( Read more... )

Lauren has Dave, the perfect boyfriend. She's not the most popular girl at school, but she's Dave's Girlfriend, and that counts for something. Furthermore, Dave himself is nice, loves his family, doesn't push her, isn't afraid of commitment, and wants to go to college with her. But Lauren just doesn't have the same passion for him that her best ( Read more... )

I randomly stumbled across this in the library while I was looking for more Pearl Cleage. I figure I should try and read more non-white, non-American focused books, so here we go ( Read more... )

Ehm, yes, this is the first time I've read this...

Anyhow! I actually knew all of the plot, having read Jenna Starborn (Sharon Shinn's sci-fi take on the tale) and The Eyre Affair. Mostly I was afraid that I would detest Mr. Rochester and thereby not respect Jane, largely because I completely failed to understand the attraction in either of the ( Read more... )

reading_genji is evil ( Read more... )