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Tuesday, 31 July 2018
#5: Where The Light Gets In
Lucy Dillon (Author)
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WRITING WOMEN: GIVE ME YOUR HAND BY MEGAN ABBOTT
You don’t have a self until you have a secret.
Kit had never known ambition until she met Diane. It was as though Diane’s brilliant mind showed Kit everything she could be, everything she ought to be, everything she would be.
But then Diane told Kit a secret, a secret so dark and heavy, Diane could (can) barely stand carrying it. But once high school was over and the two parted ways. Kit thought she would never see Diane again until a decade later Diane walks into Kit’s lab changing her life – both their lives.
“Women have to live so much of their life in the in-betweens.”
In this twisted psychological thriller, Megan Abbott once again turns her eyes to women, mastering a story that intersects their lives, their struggles, their successes and failures, and above all, their secrets.
Give me Your Hand is a novel that works on many levels. Structurally speaking, it goes back and forth between the present and the past showing Diane and Kit’s relationship through time. It is a twisted, violent, dark tale where the beginning and the ending intertwine in wholly unexpected ways.
Starting when they first met at a summer camp (when Diane was the first one to share a seemingly innocent secret) and eventually leading the two women down similar career paths. When they meet again at Doctor Severin’s Lab, a woman who has inspired both of them to go into science, they are both hoping to work on a two-year study of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) that just got green-lighted (with a lot of money in the bank). Their potential rivalry is only a recurring facet of their relationship – one that is fraught with moments of real closeness and understanding as well as fear and distrust.
Thematically speaking, this is a story that allows for larger-than-life themes such as ambition, science and patriarchy to feed and be fed by the inner workings and feelings of its female characters. The fact that they are scientists, working on an environment where their colleagues are mostly men and on a unique project that exclusively deals with women’s health is not a small deal. There are micro and macro aggressions that both women endure on a day to day basis and their relationship with the head of the lab – another brilliant and ambition woman – is another side of the story. One that never follows predictable pathways, the author once again doing what she does best: allowing her women to be clever and ambitious. Sometimes even violent.
It is in the micro and in the innermost that story truly shines though. From Kit’s psychological torment upon learning of Diane’s secret, to the way the story unravels Kit’s mind. From the fact that Kit is the only narrator here and it is her viewpoint that – right or wrong – shows us Diane the way Kit imagines her to really be to how the story tells us more about Diane without undermining Kit’s own perspective.
“By telling me, you trapped me,” I say through my teeth. “By telling you,” she whispers, rain still glistening on her, “I was free.”
Give me Your Hand is a brilliant thriller, a fantastic story about secrets and friendship.
Rating: 8 leaning toward 9.
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July: On The Pile
While the rest of you heatwaving lollygaggers have been living it up outdoors, we've been sweating indoors with a massive pile of brilliant books. Check out what the Bookmunch contributors have been reading this month...
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Monday, 30 July 2018
#10: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman (Author)
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#7: Father, Son and the Pennine Way: 5 days, 90 miles - what could possibly go wrong?
Mark Richards (Author)
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Over at Kirkus: ANNEX by Rich Larson
We are over at Kirkus today for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn again, with a review of Annex by Rich Larson.
The debut novel from Rich Larson, Annex is a story of an alien invasion–told from the perspective of two young protagonists. Nigerian-American twelve-year-old Bo escapes the warehouse where he’s been kept prisoner and implanted with a parasite in his belly; fifteen-year-old Violet is the trans young woman who finds him and brings him back to the other kids who have managed to escape their alien captors. Annex is not only a captivating alien invasion novel with a few unexpected twists; it also is an excellent study in marginalized characters and found families. Go over to Kirkus to get the full review.
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#8: The Summer of Impossible Things: An uplifting, emotional story as seen on ITV in the Zoe Ball Book Club
Rowan Coleman (Author)
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“It’s hard to work out what fits where” – The Red Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk
"It starts well. The ‘little gentleman’ narrator is one that Pamuk does comfortably and convincingly; the story runs along smoothly. In the next part of the book things get a bit bogged down. There’s so much peripheral detail packed in that it’s hard to work out what fits where, what is relevant and what isn’t..." - Lucy Chatburn reviews The Red Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk
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The Best YA Books of 2018 (So Far)
This year, the YA world said hello to fierce newcomers like Zélie Adebola and bid adieu to beloved favorites like Lada Dracul. With 2018 more than halfway over, we decided to take a look back at the genre's best and brightest (so far).
To create this list, we focused on books that were published from January to July and included the titles that have been added the most to Goodreads members' shelves. And to make sure we were serving up the cream of the YA crop, we only listed books with at least a four-star average rating. This is why A Court of Frost and Starlight, War Storm, and The Fates Divide did not make the cut.
How many of these top-rated titles have you read? Don't forget to add your favorites to your Want to Read shelf!
Hot New Series
Epic Sequels
Must-Read Standalones
Which titles are you most excited to read? Let us know in the comments!
Check out complete coverage of YA Week:
31 Adaptations that Prove Hollywood Loves YA
45 Hidden Gems for YA Superfans
The Most Anticipated YA Books
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45 Hidden Gems for YA Superfans
From the sprawling territories of Erilea to the 12 districts of Panem, YA superfans have covered a lot of familiar ground. To help take these seasoned explorers off the beaten path, we skipped the classics and bestsellers and put together a list of hidden gems just waiting to be discovered.
For this roundup, we chose books that have been added fewer than 200,000 times on Goodreads members' shelves. To put this in perspective, members have added The Hunger Games to their shelves more than 6 million times. From there, we only included titles with a minimum four-star rating. Then we broke down the results into recommendations for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Suzanne Collins, John Green, Jenny Han, and Cassandra Clare.
This list is far from exhaustive, so make sure to add your own under-the-radar recommendations in the comments. And don't forget to add what catches your eye to your Want to Read shelf!
If you love Sarah J. Maas' Throne of Glass series
(or epic fantasies featuring swords, sorcery, and kingdoms in peril)…
If you love John Green's The Fault in Our Stars
(or tear-inducing contemporary fiction about catharsis and self-discovery)…
If you love Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy
(or thrilling sci-fi with dystopian regimes and terrifying tech)…
If you love Jenny Han's To All the Boys I've Loved Before
(or tender romances with humor, drama, and "adorkable" mishaps)…
If you love Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series
(or urban fantasies with paranormal activity in modern-day cities)…
What's your favorite under-the-radar YA novel? Share it with us in the comments!
Check out complete coverage of YA Week:
The Most Anticipated YA Books
The Best YA Books of 2018 (So Far)
The Top 100 YA Books on Goodreads
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