by lauralizbuckley | 4 Sep, 2021 | Book Reviews
The City We Became plot summary New York City is coming alive. Literally. Embodied by a scrawny homeless boy, guided by Sao Paulo, the city approaches the always-precarious birthing process. Unfortunately, it’s also under threat. Attacked in its most vulnerable moment...
by lauralizbuckley | 3 Jul, 2021 | Book Reviews
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: Plot Summary Addie LaRue makes a desperate deal with the devil. She wants freedom, and more time, and receives them both, but at a heavy price. Nobody will remember her. And not even just in the long run; Addie can be forgotten in...
by lauralizbuckley | 2 Jan, 2021 | Book Reviews
Plot summary: The Midnight Library Nora is surrounded by regrets. Weighed down by mistakes she’s made, roads she hasn’t taken and people she’s let down, she finds herself in the Midnight Library. Here, she can pick up any book and fall into a life she would be leading...
by lauralizbuckley | 30 Nov, 2019 | Book Reviews
Gilead is many things to many people; terrifying, oppressive, safety, home, opportunity. In The Testaments, Margaret Attwood tells a story through three very different perspectives on the bleakly misogynistic Republic of Gilead. Agnes is a young woman raised in...
by lauralizbuckley | 7 Sep, 2019 | Book Reviews
How long do you think it would take to notice days slowing down? How many extra minutes would rack up before you started to wonder whether something strange was happening? How much later than usual would the sun have to set or rise for you to know, with certainty,...
