A while back my friend Kate recommended THE GOOD THIEF by Hannah Tinti, but I never got around to reading it before yesterday. Ren is one of the many orphaned wards at St. Anthony’s, hoping to be adopted by a family before he grows too old and must be shipped off to the military. Unfortunately [...]
Despite the narration by Death, Marcus Zusak’s The Book Thief is eminently readable. I object less to his narration the further I read because perhaps it’s because I begin to forget he’s narrating until he mentions it. I don’t mind the presence of a third-person omniscient narrator; in fact, I really like it (see Milan [...]
S. Jae-Jones, but JJ, if you please. Editrix at St. Martin's Press. Writer. Artist. Avid skydiver. And she abandons her mind to obscure arts.