“We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long,” (King 422). Former Prison Guard Paul Edgecomb recalls his time working on the Green Mile, a block in Cold Mountain Penitentiary for inmates on death row. Paul has met a lot of people during …
“Some calculations are simple. Sons trump daughters. Three children trump one. Deep in my heart, I had already decided that nothing could be worse than the life I had,” (Stachniak 10). During King Louis XV reign, scouted teenager girls were sent to live in a nondescript villa in Versailles before being sent to the plaza to …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “When I saw forward into my death and welcomed its yawn, I haunted me,” (LaPierre 4). In her newest poetry collection, Margo LaPierre gives a powerful and real look at psychosis, mania, and bipolar disorder. Not looking to romanticize her mental illness, LaPierre humanizes …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Why did it scare her so? She was a fighter, an independent woman with a successful profession, not house bound like her mother had been, and all the female generations before. And yet, the Stong family lineage held her captive,” (Grundy 163). Right before …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Fear is what makes people behave badly,” (Smythe 198). Samara and J. have only started their relationship when they go off to visit J.’s hometown of Upton Bay, a smalltown where tourists visit and the wealthy live. Sam has been hired to write a …
“But here is the nature of life. That we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die,” (McConaghy 232). Dominic Salt and his three children are the caretakers of a tiny island called Shearwater, home of the world’s largest seedbank. Once full of researchers, dangerous environmental events caused by climate change have left …
“For me, change is difficult. It is paralyzing. It makes me feel vulnerable…I love in fear of making the wrong choice, because I have seen how badly that can go,” (Shannon 122). Marosa Vetalda awaits the day of her wedding to her betrothal Abrecht Lievelyn, of Mentendon, as she is a prisoner in her own home …
“She appreciates morbid humour, but most people don’t. They don’t get that life can be funny AND tragic at the same time, like in those old Road Runner cartoons my dad loves, where an anvil falls on Wile E. Coyote’s head and you’re supposed to laugh even though obviously it’s not funny for Wile E. …
“Truly lucky people have a lot of bad things happen to them along with the good…and yet, even the worst of them always seem to lead somewhere worth going,” (Stevenson 338). Viola and Wilmur have been waiting for their parents to return to them, but after fifteen years of waiting it seems less and less likely …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “I’d rather be me now, than me any age prior. But there is this heaviness to aging. Who I am was built on the shoulders of the person I was last year, and the year before, and before, and before. I’m not …
Sarah O'Connor 