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Showing posts with label overdrive collection. Show all posts

Book review: "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

This is not a book
 ★ Gordon Wyant

TFiOSI'm so far behind in reading this book.  So far, in fact, that there is really no point in writing this review.  Everyone and their grandmother has read this book, by now . . . It has been on the New York Times bestseller list for at least 35 weeks, it is still #16 in books sold on Amazon (over a year and a half after its release), and filming of the movie is about to begin on the 26th of this month!  This book has been read by nearly everyone and I have nothing that I can really add that nearly everyone hasn't already screamed, while in sorrow-filled tears of joy, that it is an amazing book.  In fact, let me present some information about the world in relation to this book in a way that I think both Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace would appreciate:







Book Review: "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman

★ Gordon Wyant

 5/5 stars . . . but this rating system can't encompass something so amazing.

Wow.  How to write a review for this book?  It is so many things and nothing at all.  A multitude of stories and just a piece of a whole.   The fleeting strand of  a memory from long ago; images and words and emotions sitting tantalizingly on the surface of your mind, yet somehow eluding your every attempt to put shape to the smoke.  Something there and gone, there and gone . . . a melancholic happiness that sublimates the moment we focus on it.   As a result, I fear this review may end up more of a rambling incoherence.  But, hopefully, I can distill some form from the chaos.