I am sorry to Alejandra Pizarnik, a poet I was not familiar with before this, that I’ll always associate her with someone else’s befuddling work now. It’s an advertisement for her work, I suppose, but not a convincing one for me.
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samtastic finished reading Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a …
Wise Women: From Pocahontas To Sarah Winnemucca, Remarkable Stories Of Native American Trailblazers by Erin H. Turner
The story of Pocahontas saving John Smith is justly famous, as is the cross-country journey of Sacajawea with the Corps …
It Might Have Been Worse; a Motor Trip from Coast to Coast by Beatrice (Larned) Massey
It Might Have Been A Motor Trip From Coast To Coast is a travel narrative that chronicles an ambitious journey …
samtastic wants to read Around the World in a Napier by Andrew M. Jepson
Around the World in a Napier by Andrew M. Jepson, Geoff McGarry
From Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, the ambition to make round-the-world trips was born, and the first …
samtastic wants to read Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings (The Belgariad, #1)
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings (The Belgariad, #1)
Long ago, so the Storyteller claimed, the evil God Torak sought dominion and drove men and Gods to war. But …
samtastic wants to read The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (Thorndike Press large print reviewers choice)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (Thorndike Press large print reviewers choice)
"On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her …
samtastic wants to read Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender's Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place WHERE a boy …
samtastic quoted The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #3)
The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll …
“They wanted to build a sort of wizard daycare…”
“…the secret Facebook group that all the older wizards were in…”
— The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #3) (97%)
Seriously what even is this trilogy
samtastic quoted Don't Make Me Pull Over! by Richard Ratay
Don’t Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family …
It wasn’t that we enjoyed spending endless hours imprisoned together in a velour-upholstered cell, squabbling over radio stations and inhaling each other’s farts. It was that we had no other choice.
— Don't Make Me Pull Over! by Richard Ratay (Page 7)
samtastic started reading Don't Make Me Pull Over! by Richard Ratay
Don't Make Me Pull Over! by Richard Ratay
Don’t Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips—before portable DVD players, …
samtastic quoted The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #3)
The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll …
it’s difficult when you feel like an absolute twonk.
— The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #3) (88%)
Had to question if she was referring to twunks. Apparently it’s a British thing. 🤷🏻♀️
samtastic wants to read Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
From the back cover:
World famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. …
samtastic started reading The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #3)
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #3)
The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. …
samtastic finished reading The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #2)
Return to the Scholomance - and face an even deadlier graduation - in the stunning …
Yeah so I still wouldn’t say I enjoy these books but they at least end with intriguing enough cliffhangers that I guess I’m completing the trilogy after all. 🤷🏻♀️