I picked up this book because it was voted as our book club book for December. I hadn't heard anything about this book previously, but the synopsis sounded really cool. The theme for this month was psychology, and I'm all about that. (Heck yes, Criminal Minds may or may not be my favorite show. It i...
...In asking petulantly whether Thursday was my fault, I have had to go backward, to deconstruct. It is possible that I am asking the wrong question. In any event, by thrashing between exoneration and excoriation, I have only tired myself out. I don't know.
bookshelves: autumn-2014, published-2013, next Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Read from September 24 to 25, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bfk98Description: Prepositions: Lionel Shriver's story takes the form of a letter in which long held resentments are finally expressed, ten years...
It could be said, genetically speaking, that parenthood is like a box of chocolates, because you never really know what you’re going to get - be it a well-rounded, easy-going, straight A-grade caramel; or a bitter, frustrated, possibly homicidal cherry liqueur. Except I hate that analogy, because ev...
Very very short review on this. Took me a while to get my hands on this as i got it from My local Library. I don't think I could ever get the sound. shsh-thunk. out of my head again. An absolutely heartbreaking tale. I was left with a deep unease after reading this book. This book is just de...
This (audio)book was not at all what I expected it to be, and I imagine that many readers going in under the assumption that this would be some sort of globally applicable perpetrators' parents'-eye-view of the epidemic of school shootings and teen violence will be disappointed by its shortcomings i...
I was listening to the radio .... And playing is Oliie Murs song, Troublemaker. There's a line in it that goes "Why does it feel so good, but hurt so bad?" .... That's how I feel about Lionel Shrivers We Need to Talk About Kevin .... I both loved this book, hence the five star rating, and hated it...
The obvious comparison of this book is with the novel Lolita. Both books are ambiguous as to what is going on. In my interpretation, both books are about the self-justifications of a delusional monster. At the time Lolita came out, there was a much lower level of awareness of child sexual abuse an...
As someone who is the age of the main character when she decides to have a child and who is going through some of the mental stages that the main character did when she was choosing to have or not have a child this did strike a chord. It also left me with a lot of questions. You know from the begi...
You could definitely classify We Need To Talk About Kevin as a Marmite book. You cannot read this and not form an opinion.It is written as a set of letters from, Eva, the mother of Kevin, to Franklin her husband. In each letter she explains her feelings, fears and concerns over all sorts of things, ...
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