book reviewThe Midnight Lie by Marie Rutoski is about a young girl named Nirrim who lives in the ever grey Ward, content with a life without pleasures (like color or sweets) until Sid, the strange traveler starts whispering about magic in one of the upper sections of the kingdom. Nirrim has to choose if she wants to risk everything she knows to trust this stranger and learn more about her country with no history.
Holy crap. I haven’t fallen in love with a book like this in suuuuccchhhh a long time. Once I picked this book up, I didn’t want to put it down. I devoured this book. And I never would have picked this book up if I didn’t get in a care package from my favorite local bookstore Changing Hands Bookstore. I bought a quarantine care package and choose to let them pick the book, said I’d be interested in anything including YA and maybe something with feminist vibes… I was not expecting to be blown away! Like… almost speechless at how much I love it.
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MEntal Health & FeminismHello lovelies! This week I want to introduce a new segment for the Purrfect Feminist Perspective called Feminist Fridays! Feminist Fridays is about feminism with a real life application. Sometimes people talk about these ideas and discussions can get really theoretical which can translate in our lives as not something we think about practically. Or as something that is an interesting thought exercise but not to take with us. My hope is to combat this by bringing it back to the world around us.
Originally, the plan was to post this in May, in honor of National Mental Health Awareness Month. Life got busy and I didn’t want to share this with you before it was fully ready, so the date has been pushed back until now! So, let’s talk about mental health and its relationship with feminism. Book ReviewGalaxy “Alex” Stern is a high-school-drop-out, drug dealer, and the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. After being involved in a terrible, unsolved homicide, Alex was given the chance at a redo if she agrees to become a part of the secret societies at Yale that deal with everything magical. But as she finds herself involved in a murder investigation that is bigger than original imagined, Alex begins to wonder if she’ll make it out of the year alive or as one of the grays(ghosts) that she can see.
I fell in love with Leigh Bardugo’s duology Six of Crows a couple years ago, so when I learned that my old book box subscription had Ninth House as one its picks for November I didn’t even look at the other options before adding it to my box. Mr. Purrfect decided he needed to read it first since he introduced me to Bardugo’s books, and then took FOREVER to only give up on it. So I’ve finally had the chance to dive in, and while I was really hesitant at the beginning of the book, about 1/3 way through I was hooked! Book ReviewAs World War 2 rages on, and Japanese forces force themselves farther into China, students from Minghua University are ordered to march across the country to a remote campus. Hu Lian and a convoy of fellow students and faculty must walk thousands of miles to safety while carrying one of Chin’as greated treasures: a 5,000 year old collection of myths and folklore called the Library of Legends. The travel brings friendship, budding romance, danger, and the realization the country’s immortals are also embarking on their own pilgrimage.
This is not a novel I would typically pick out for myself. I am not a historical-anything person, let alone historical fantasy. But when my book bestie suggested we use this for our buddy read, I agreed, and I am so glad I did! Just another reminder to branch outside your normal genres because I finished this in three days, and it only took that long because I had to wait for our half way point discussion before finishing. |
Hello, love! Please, don't mind the cat hair. I'm a lover of all genres (except romance, ironic, I know), and potentially --accidentally-- obsessed with feminist literary theory. Feel free to scroll around, hopefully see a few cats, and find a good new book or two!
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