Let’s get one thing out of the way up front: Beautiful Ruins is an absolutely perfect book, and if you read any review that claims otherwise, then that reviewer is trying too hard to be a smug killjoy and they should not be trusted. You should perhaps ask them if they also enjoy popping children’s […]
About the only review I’ve ever read for Cloud Atlas that I now know comes close to doing it justice is a tweet from Ayelet Waldman, which I must paraphrase for it was a while ago: “I wish I could re-experience the feeling of reading Cloud Atlas for the first time.” The first time blows […]
Love can arrive anywhere. It breaks through calcified pain and loneliness, and it will nourish our souls when we recognize its many forms. Love will heal us, love will show us the way through, and in the end, it’s true–love is all you need. Let me be clear from the start: Simon Van Booy has […]