Quotable Thursday

 

"The world outside the window was white with snow--the trees caked in it, the garden killed by it--its plants stiff and gray, frozen, the tilled ground mounded white, and footprints, from the garden to house, showing the path the mother had walked with her screaming child. Though somehow the tomatoes remained bright red, now almost like shiny Christmas tree ornaments--much too red against the snow." --Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

I was under the misguided notion that this book was a horror novel, a notion partially fueled by my local bookstore displaying it in the "Horror" section of the store. To date, the scariest thing about this novel is the author's overuse of the words "celesbian" and "wunderkind" to describe her characters. But the story is not bad...

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