Book #56 of 2019: And the Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness I never know what to expect from Patrick Ness. That’s not necessarily a compliment — I’ve probably hated his books as often as I’ve loved them — but it speaks to a certain willingness to experiment that keeps me coming back to …
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Book #92 of 2017: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness A powerful novel of grief and guilt, where a boy struggling to come to terms with his mother’s cancer must also face down the primeval creature that has crawled out of his dreams with harsh truths of its own. There’s a reading of this story …
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Book #119 of 2016: The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness A moving YA novel that brought to mind both Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and the Buffy episode “The Zeppo.” Like those stories, The Rest of Us Just Live Here focuses on the people who are background characters in large epic …
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