Oh this book. I'm reading two heavy nonfiction books right now also, and try as I might, and as much as I'm enjoying them, I need breaks from nonfiction! So this weekend I picked up this book, which apparently I had reserved after reading a review? I usually love reading tales of "Southern High S...
Early in her career, Sarah Bird wrote a clutch of romance novels as Tory Cates – a pseudonym that might be translated as "conservative delicacies," which almost sums up the damsels-and-rakes genre in a phrase. But genre fiction is too limiting for a writer as irrepressibly clever as Bird, whose n...
Still, what else would explain why her sullenness has escalated so dramatically recently?I run to Aubrey’s room. It is even more freakishly neat than usual. Stark, actually, since over the course of the summer she has moved so many of her clothes to Tyler’s. All her books are arranged according t...
And far, far too little water. An instant after the rain stopped, the moisture all disappeared, sucked away by the coral and limestone of our rocky island. And although every surface in the cave was damp, all the moisture, contaminated by salt or human waste, was undrinkable. Though it seemed fut...