Book #230 of 2017: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart The biggest flaw in this novel about a teenager returning to her family’s vacation home two years after an accident there that she can’t remember is that there’s basically no plot to it. Author E. Lockhart paints a lovely idyllic picture of Cady, her cousins, …
Continue reading “Book Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart”
Book #146 of 2017: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart A terrific – and terrifically feminist – contemporary Young Adult novel about a wickedly clever teenage girl at an elite prep school with an all-male secret society / good old boys alumni network. Frankie’s frustrations with how she is held back because …
Continue reading “Book Review: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart”
The Lesser Joke: book reviews and more