Reading Notes #25

The plot thickens, the movie sickens

Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews

One of the ways I judge a book, perhaps the most important way, is how well I remember it. Do the characters stay with me, vivid, fully imagined? When I glance at the book’s cover do I call up mental images and impressions? Or is it a blank, a mushy gray fog, a head-scratching vagueness and flipping open the pages or reading…