Gah, this was such a painful book to read! Not because it was bad or anything. Quite the opposite. It was good in the same way that something like “Fried Green Tomatoes” or “The Philadelphia Story” was good. It hurt to watch as the two main characters, John and Alfred, must endure not only the ho...
I'm not really sure what to think of this. In one way, I liked it enough to read it 'till the end but in another way, I was kind of disappointed. I was expecting something more epic, less ordinary. Maybe Kai to be less alien and more approachable. Joel to be more sure and not so lost. Maybe not t...
“I know all the songs tell us how terrible it is to be alone, without place or protector, a wanderer in the wilderness. I can recite the lament of the lordless with every syllable dripping with woe. It isn’t to be alone that I fear, it is to be caged. Bound to some man who thinks that because he ...