Best Books of 2019
By Karen Perez
Hello fellow readers! It’s me Karen, one of the fellow writers in the HPCMS Blog and this time instead of talking about Petra Kvitova this time let’s talk about a book review! According to The New York Times, these are one of the 10 best books of 2019. Not only that but we will also include some of the students of HPCMS favorite books of 2019.
Starting off with “Disappearing Earth” By Julia Phillips which talks about 2 sisters who each have different perspectives of life. One wants to venture deeper while the other one just wants to stay hidden. By the end of the first chapter, both of them get kidnapped and the story continues, showing inspiring women trying to get rid of the fear and loss between each other. The second book according to The New York Times is “The Topeka School” by Ben Lerner which is a third novel coming after “Leaving the Atocha Station” and “10:04” of a series and talks about American amplitude, ranging freely from parenthood to childhood, from toxic masculinity to the niceties of cunnilingus and it is also told in third person and also according to Vulture its number 1 in for the best books ok 2019 and it states “I dunno if Ben Lerner was reading a lot of Faulkner when he wrote The Topeka School or if he naturally shares some of that writer’s fixations (clan, memory, language) and modes (doom-filled, funny, allusive), but either way: damn. Channeling W.F. in a work that is wholly non derivative and frighteningly contemporary is a feat I can’t adequately evaluate, only admire.” so this book is pretty good so go ahead and read it!
The third book that The New York Times is “Exhalation” By Ted Chiang which talks about 9 stories of time travel and each story is elegant and beautiful in its own way not only that but it sets its plot around a race of air-driven mechanical beings and a scientist that discovers that when the air pressure goes to an equilibrium, the computation and time that these race knows will disappear. The fourth book is “Lost Children Archive” by Valeria Luiselli which also talks about the life of immigrants, of how children have to cross the border in order to find a better future and most of the story takes place in Mexico’s Border in a breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.
The fifth book is “Night Boat To Tangier” By: Kevin Barry which talks about two aging Irish gangsters—Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond—as they loiter at a ferry terminal in Algeciras, Spain, hoping to encounter Maurice's estranged daughter, Dilly.. The sixth book is “Say Nothing” By: Patrick Radden Keefe which talks about a true story of murder in Northern Ireland and the examination of the cost of achieving peace which is a book I really recomend to you since our world is needing peace in this exact moment.
The seventh book is “The Club” by Leo Damrosch which talks about an english painter who is trying to cheer up one of his fellow friends which just so happens to be blue and in order to make him feel better takes him to a night gab sessions which just so happens to take them to late-18th-century Britain? Damrosch brings the Club’s redoubtable personalities — the brilliant minds, the jousting wits, the tender camaraderie — to vivid life, delivering indelible portraits of Johnson and Reynolds, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, the actor David Garrick, the historian Edward Gibbon and, of course, Johnson’s loyal biographer James Boswell: “a constellation of talent that has rarely if ever been equaled.” The eight book is “The Yellow House” By: Sarah M. Broom which talks about Part oral history, part urban history, part celebration of a by gone way of life, “The Yellow House” is a full indictment of the greed, discrimination, indifference and poor city planning that led her family’s home to be wiped off the map in which Sarah M. Broom pushes past the baseline expectations of memoir to create an entertaining and inventive amalgamation of literary forms.
The ninth book is “No Visible Bruises” by :Rachel Louise Snyder which talks about abuse that happens in America these days, for example in America alone more than half of all murdered women are murdered by a former partner. The tenth and final book that The New York Times talks about is Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham which talks about an explosion that happened in 1986 and its one of those books of science and technology that reads like a tension filled thriller and it also goes from mistake to mistake, miscalculation to miscalculation as it builds to the inevitable, history-changing disaster.
To end this off nicely, I’ve asked a couple of students from the sixth grade and here are some of their answers, Angelina Zapata from class 604 says, “One of the books that I read in 2019 that I really enjoyed was “The Hate You Give” by: Angie Thomas.” Another student is Rosina Ehrlich from 604 says her favorite book from 2019 is “Counting by 7” by: Holly Goldberg Sloan. The last student I asked was Oscar Rendon from 603 and he says his favorite series of 2019 was The Diary Of A Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. So what was one of the best books of 2019 that you read, was it fiction, non fiction, fantasy, or biography? Let me know!
Starting off with “Disappearing Earth” By Julia Phillips which talks about 2 sisters who each have different perspectives of life. One wants to venture deeper while the other one just wants to stay hidden. By the end of the first chapter, both of them get kidnapped and the story continues, showing inspiring women trying to get rid of the fear and loss between each other. The second book according to The New York Times is “The Topeka School” by Ben Lerner which is a third novel coming after “Leaving the Atocha Station” and “10:04” of a series and talks about American amplitude, ranging freely from parenthood to childhood, from toxic masculinity to the niceties of cunnilingus and it is also told in third person and also according to Vulture its number 1 in for the best books ok 2019 and it states “I dunno if Ben Lerner was reading a lot of Faulkner when he wrote The Topeka School or if he naturally shares some of that writer’s fixations (clan, memory, language) and modes (doom-filled, funny, allusive), but either way: damn. Channeling W.F. in a work that is wholly non derivative and frighteningly contemporary is a feat I can’t adequately evaluate, only admire.” so this book is pretty good so go ahead and read it!
The third book that The New York Times is “Exhalation” By Ted Chiang which talks about 9 stories of time travel and each story is elegant and beautiful in its own way not only that but it sets its plot around a race of air-driven mechanical beings and a scientist that discovers that when the air pressure goes to an equilibrium, the computation and time that these race knows will disappear. The fourth book is “Lost Children Archive” by Valeria Luiselli which also talks about the life of immigrants, of how children have to cross the border in order to find a better future and most of the story takes place in Mexico’s Border in a breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.
The fifth book is “Night Boat To Tangier” By: Kevin Barry which talks about two aging Irish gangsters—Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond—as they loiter at a ferry terminal in Algeciras, Spain, hoping to encounter Maurice's estranged daughter, Dilly.. The sixth book is “Say Nothing” By: Patrick Radden Keefe which talks about a true story of murder in Northern Ireland and the examination of the cost of achieving peace which is a book I really recomend to you since our world is needing peace in this exact moment.
The seventh book is “The Club” by Leo Damrosch which talks about an english painter who is trying to cheer up one of his fellow friends which just so happens to be blue and in order to make him feel better takes him to a night gab sessions which just so happens to take them to late-18th-century Britain? Damrosch brings the Club’s redoubtable personalities — the brilliant minds, the jousting wits, the tender camaraderie — to vivid life, delivering indelible portraits of Johnson and Reynolds, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, the actor David Garrick, the historian Edward Gibbon and, of course, Johnson’s loyal biographer James Boswell: “a constellation of talent that has rarely if ever been equaled.” The eight book is “The Yellow House” By: Sarah M. Broom which talks about Part oral history, part urban history, part celebration of a by gone way of life, “The Yellow House” is a full indictment of the greed, discrimination, indifference and poor city planning that led her family’s home to be wiped off the map in which Sarah M. Broom pushes past the baseline expectations of memoir to create an entertaining and inventive amalgamation of literary forms.
The ninth book is “No Visible Bruises” by :Rachel Louise Snyder which talks about abuse that happens in America these days, for example in America alone more than half of all murdered women are murdered by a former partner. The tenth and final book that The New York Times talks about is Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham which talks about an explosion that happened in 1986 and its one of those books of science and technology that reads like a tension filled thriller and it also goes from mistake to mistake, miscalculation to miscalculation as it builds to the inevitable, history-changing disaster.
To end this off nicely, I’ve asked a couple of students from the sixth grade and here are some of their answers, Angelina Zapata from class 604 says, “One of the books that I read in 2019 that I really enjoyed was “The Hate You Give” by: Angie Thomas.” Another student is Rosina Ehrlich from 604 says her favorite book from 2019 is “Counting by 7” by: Holly Goldberg Sloan. The last student I asked was Oscar Rendon from 603 and he says his favorite series of 2019 was The Diary Of A Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. So what was one of the best books of 2019 that you read, was it fiction, non fiction, fantasy, or biography? Let me know!
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