tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68513878722708677982024-03-06T03:45:21.380-05:00Aimée Jodoin: WriterAimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-18692288986549160432019-10-31T18:29:00.003-04:002019-10-31T18:29:41.835-04:00Books I Read in October 2019Note: I am including only the books I loved in these "Books I Read" blog posts. I read a lot, and I don't want to clog the blogsphere (and my blog) with negative reviews. There were a few books I read this month that I did not fully enjoy; those are not included here.
The Tiger at Midnight by Swati Teerdhala
On two sides of a long-running war, a soldier and an assassin sent to kill his militaryAimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-77099374854630255422019-09-28T14:01:00.003-04:002019-09-28T14:01:41.203-04:00Books I Read in September 2019
The Testament by Margaret Atwood
As this is one of the most popular books this year, I found myself lucky to be one of the first on the hold list at the library. It's an excellent follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale told from three perspectives—none of which are Offred from the first book. The narrative perspectives offer experiences outside Offred's, and they help to round out the world in a Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-65149888542854857882019-08-29T12:39:00.004-04:002019-08-29T12:39:27.389-04:00Books I Read in August 2019The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind by Jackson Ford
I couldn't help but pick this one up for the title. And the story did not disappoint: a telekinetic young woman who does secret jobs for a government organization realizes she's not the only one with powers in her city when a murder is committed that only a telekinetic would be capable of. The narrator's voice is hilarious and distinct, Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-82014847594126619482019-07-31T10:17:00.001-04:002019-07-31T10:19:00.411-04:00Books I Read in July 2019
Recursion by Blake Crouch
There's a secret plague going on. People suddenly possess memories of a life they have not lived. False Memory Syndrome, they're calling it, until detective Barry Sutton discovers what is really happening: A scientist has created a machine that sends peoples' consciousnesses back into a memory, and some have changed what has happened in the past.
I am incredibly Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-66281082022602393552014-08-29T17:34:00.002-04:002019-07-31T15:30:46.266-04:00Books I Read This Month - August 2014
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
A mentally challenged man undergoes surgery to improve his intelligence in this novel, but it does not quite turn out exactly how he or the scientists expected. This is one of those classic books that had been sitting on my shelf for a while and that I knew I would have to read eventually, but when I finally got to it, I didn’t realize that it was goingAimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-5250744886229834712014-08-20T13:14:00.001-04:002019-07-31T17:07:24.117-04:00Lord Soul by S. M. Kois
In her second novel, S. M. Kois ups the ante in terms of philosophical discussion and spiritual questioning. This book, Lord Soul, introduces a young boy named Charlie who has an extremely high IQ. When his baby brother is diagnosed with an incredibly horrible disease and is given a life expectancy of only a few years, seven-year-old Charlie is determined to find a cure. He studies books well Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-32116775692552624782014-07-31T14:58:00.001-04:002019-07-31T15:30:45.822-04:00Books I Read This Month - July 2014
Room by Emma Donoghue
Whoa. This is a hugely powerful novel about a woman who was kidnapped at nineteen and held in a room for several years, repeatedly raped by her captor. It is told from the perspective of her five-year-old son, Jack, who was born in the room and has never been outside and never met anyone other than his mother and the kidnapper (from whom his mother fiercely protects him, Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-71468715575632190782014-07-07T18:11:00.001-04:002017-06-30T21:43:15.678-04:00My Short Story "Choice" Was Published Today!My short story "Choice" was published today on S/tick magazine's blog. I'd love to hear your comments! S/tick is a feminist magazine based in Canada. My story fits with their mission because the subject of the story is a contemporary feminist topic. I feel like I should mention that my story is not based in experience, as it is a sort of controversial topic. I hope you enjoy it, if you venture Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-36050724605324440732014-06-30T20:42:00.001-04:002019-07-31T15:30:45.905-04:00Books I Read This Month - June 2014
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murkami
More Haruki Murakami, of course, because he is easily one of my favorite authors. This book is one of his earlier works, and it's less supernatural and surreal than his later books. It's more straightforward and clear in its writing style, but it still has Murakami's quirky sense of humor and introspectiveness. In this book, a young man who's a bit dull (Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-16775181076773568412014-05-31T16:23:00.001-04:002019-07-31T15:30:45.620-04:00Books I Read This Month - May 2014
Far from You by Tess Sharpe
I hadn't read a Young Adult novel in a while, and this thriller sounded like something I would enjoy. It was a quick read, as I expected it to be and as I was in the mood for, but that doesn't mean it wasn't powerful. This book follows high schooler Sophie in the few weeks after she is released from a drug addiction treatment center. Right before she was sent there, Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-32379093011392462222014-05-30T10:58:00.004-04:002019-07-31T17:07:23.853-04:00Leverage by Nancy Thompson
I waited for Nancy Thompson’s sequel to her high-tension debut novel, The Mistaken, with a lot of excited anticipation. And it lived up to my expectations.
Leverage takes place a few years after where The Mistaken left off and follows Tyler, Hannah, and Hannah’s son Connor as evils from their past, which they thought had been long-buried, return with vengeance. Connor believes his college Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-64542371452499801692014-04-29T17:47:00.003-04:002019-07-31T15:30:46.239-04:00Books I Read This Month - April 2014A Wounded Name by Dot HutchinsonThis retelling of Hamlet following Ophelia and taking place in a boarding school is written with gorgeously flowery prose. The pacing, setting, and literary style are perfect. The only problem I had with the book is quite a major problem, in that the young Hamlet is violent and abusive toward Ophelia, and Ophelia simply deals with it, making excuses about his Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-1243496245384091262014-03-30T14:26:00.001-04:002019-07-31T15:30:45.537-04:00Books I Read This Month - March 2014The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
A children's book writer struggles with the emotional downfall of his marriage after his three-year-old daughter is kidnapped in a supermarket. While the book is slow in parts, especially when it deals with the man's serving on a political board that makes policies concerning literacy in education, it goes really deep into his psyche and details how the loss of hisAimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-17506360471751070292014-02-16T14:49:00.004-05:002019-07-31T17:07:23.755-04:00The Emissary by Marc Pietrzykowski
Set in a nursing home where ex-worker Cam Wright often visits to record the residents telling vignettes from their life stories, The Emissary follows a handful of characters as they encounter death in numbers suspiciously higher than expected for the average nursing home.
Head nurse Carol Ann DeFazio is caring but a stickler for rules; nurse Angela Padilla is a kindhearted single mother and Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-155673533760653532014-01-31T19:06:00.000-05:002019-07-31T15:30:45.593-04:00Books I Read This Month - January 2014I had a bit of time to read this month, but I'm not expecting that in the next few months, as I wrap up my university studies. Here are the first books I read in 2014!
Memoirs of an Imaginary Best Friend by Matthew Dicks
I really, really wanted to like this book. I had high expectations because of the fascinating premise—the story of the kidnapping of an autistic child told from the perspectiveAimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-59212439713733204172013-12-26T09:45:00.001-05:002019-07-31T15:30:46.100-04:00Books I Read This Month - December 2013The Gin Closet by Leslie Jamison
This novel begins with twenty-something Stella helping her grandmother, who is going downhill with dementia. After her death, Stella searches for her long-lost aunt and fins her an alcoholic living in a trailer park. The two women are both struggling through some difficult psychological and emotional issues, and they learn by attempting to help each other that Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-11336798583358663602013-10-30T17:40:00.001-04:002019-07-31T15:30:45.509-04:00Books I Read This Month - October 2013No Animals We Could Name by Ted Sanders
This is a collection of short stories by the winner of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize. Overall, this is a spectacular collection. My favorites would have to be the three-part story, "Airbag," and the story, "Putting the Lizard to Sleep." When I first started reading, I was incredibly annoyed at the passive voice in the first and second Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-45128322502542973552013-10-14T06:35:00.000-04:002019-07-31T17:07:23.998-04:00The Vanished Knight: The War of Six Crowns by M. Gerrick (Review and Interview)"She’d never been to a boarding school before, but it was a school
just the same as all the others. Except that here the students wore
black and blue uniforms—a good reminder as any of the pain they could
inflict if she let them."
Book Blurb:
Since the death of her parents,
Callan Blair has been shunted from one foster family to another, her dangerous
secret forcing the move Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-37837330154453414702013-09-28T20:21:00.001-04:002019-07-31T17:07:23.951-04:00The Prodigal by Michael Hurley
With a prologue that can stand alone as a striking, atmospheric short story on its own, The Prodigal is an eloquently written debut novel of island life. Overall, the story and writing style are enchanting, and the characters are all wonderfully drawn and mostly relatable and likable. As the title implies, the book is an allegory of the prodigal son story, though The Prodigal is a ship, so the Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-52385376323450017052013-08-31T17:46:00.002-04:002019-07-31T15:30:45.989-04:00Books I Read This Month - August 2013
Apparently I went on a science fiction and
historical kick this month, with four books that each take place in the past,
two of them with science fiction elements, and all with some real events. Must
just have been the mood I was in.
Equilateral
by Ken Kalfus
A physicist has a plan to dig a hundreds-of-miles
wide equilateral triangle into the Sahara desert to attract Martians by
lightingAimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-72659803013897266522013-07-31T18:40:00.002-04:002019-07-31T15:30:46.321-04:00Books I’ve Read in the Past Seven MonthsSince the beginning of 2013, I have had pretty
much zero time to read. I moved. I work full time. I’m in college full time. I
write. I have people with whom I enjoy speaking on a semi-daily basis. I also
need to sleep sometimes. In the absence of free time in which I could pick up a
book in which to immerse myself, I found myself surrounded by books—hundreds
every day (due both to my job and to Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-72864722720381876002013-02-17T19:17:00.000-05:002019-07-31T17:07:24.330-04:00White Cedar Press by Eric Burnett Timar
After working as an editor for a small yet
prestigious publishing house in New York for four years, Tim Craire receives a
request from the publisher to edit and prepare for publication a novel
featuring Huckleberry Finn as a slave trader. A few more reimaginings of literary
classics get Tim thinking that White Cedar Press is attempting to start a new,
quirky trend, but soon he fears the worst: Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-82144412024503378852013-01-28T17:21:00.002-05:002019-07-31T17:07:24.382-04:00Social Media Just for Writers by Frances Caballo (Part Two)
Last Tuesday, I was a part of the book tour for Social Media Just for Writers by Frances
Caballo and announced a giveaway of the book. The winner is…
Lara!
Congratulations, Lara. I will be emailing you
shortly. Now, here is my review of Social
Media Just for Writers, which I would have posted on Tuesday had I not been
ridiculously bogged down with other responsibilities:
From Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-67402921822091542822013-01-22T18:16:00.000-05:002019-07-31T17:07:24.237-04:00Social Media Just for Writers by Frances Caballo
From Facebook to Twitter to Pinterest and more, the options for networking and gaining readers are more plentiful than most writers believe. By comparing the significant social media vehicles to writers and artists who would have loved the tools had they lived in the modern age, Frances Caballo outlines the best online marketing skills needed to reach a wider readership. This guide is an Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851387872270867798.post-20726933388386442722013-01-05T11:25:00.001-05:002017-06-30T22:01:49.650-04:00Books Released This Month - January 2013Fear of Beauty by Susan Froetschel
Fiction
15 January 2013
An Afghan women searches for her son's murderer while a US soldier attempts to escape the effects of a rough childhood, each learning the extent of cultural differences.
The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas
Historical Fiction
10 January 2013
During WWII, a newlywed couple leaves Wales for the first time in their lives to live at a Aimée Jodoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064718577605753502noreply@blogger.com3