Last week had some real ‘kick-in-the-teeth’ moments, so I was so thrilled to have a glorious start to my Monday. First, I got my Book Exchange ’21 book from Dome’Loki, and it looks fantastic! I haven’t read it, the cover is gorgeous, I think Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a terrific story teller, and I have something new to curl up with tonight! Thank you thank you thank you, and have a happy, relaxing holiday, Dome’Loki. In addition, I got a gorgeous holiday card from Katie who […]
Archives for December 2021
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving (1989)
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
One of the first adult books I read when I was younger. I don’t mean adult in terms of audience exactly, but adult in terms of you more or less need to be an adult to appreciate a lot of what this contains. In part, this is a book about the Baby Boomer generation told from within, and that the memories and experiences tied to that generation fuel a lot of the book. It’s also helpful to have some world experience and world weariness. So […]
“Why follow me to higher ground? Lost as you swear I am Don’t throw away your basic needs Ambiance and vanity”
Great Jones Street by Don Delillo
Smoky Joe's Cafe by Bryce Courtenay
The Divine Comedy by Dante
The Junkie Quatrain by Peter Clines
The Eye of the World by Robert Jones
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Gone to Earth by Mary Webb
Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny
The Earth is Weeping by Peter Cozzens
Great Jones Street – 3/5 Stars This is an early Don Delillo novel that is ostensibly about a rock musician who seems to be in his mid-to-late 30s, living in a hotel on Great Jones Street in New York City. I don’t know a ton about New York, but I did happen to see Great Jones Street this summer, and these days, it’s a relatively bland and corporatized street in lower Manhattan. In the novel of the novel, it’s a little more sinister feeling, but […]
Sometimes You Just Get Tired
Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay
I feel like I should apologize for so many “meh” reviews as of late. I guess I’m in a grouchy reader phase (ever have one of those?) But I’m glad Alex Finlay’s Every Last Fear won’t be the book with which I finish my cannonball. I dunno, I’m just tired of half-assed thrillers written by mediocre writers. I love mysteries, suspense novels and thrillers. I’ve read a lot of good ones and some bad ones. But the novels that depress me the most are the […]
another gripe: for an advice columnist, our protagonist is really clueless
Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales
Four stars for the themes of biphobia, internalized or not, but knock down to three stars for the over-reliance on trope and the underwhelming exploration of said biphobia themes. The main conceit of this novel is the part that somewhat lost me. There’s a locker in school into which high schoolers drop their romantic issues for Darcy Phillips, 16-going-on-17-year old wunderkid, to reply to. Do not worry though–Darcy is clear to tell us that she’s very rigorous about the whole affair and pulls from psychology […]
we’re probably in MPDG territory but I think it might pass on a technicality
The Single's Table by Sara Desai
Is Zara a manic pixie dream girl? I feel like maybe she is, which breaks my heart every so slightly because I thought that Desai did a terrific job in writing a madcap type character who isn’t a joke as much as she is jovial and loves jokes. The story here is a pretty straight forward one–Zara is a single lawyer with a string of failed relationships (with a capital F for failed) who has decided to put her energies into matchmaking during the wedding […]
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