The book group that I’m in at work picks books that either have already been made into a movie or soon will be made into a movie. It’s made for an interesting mix. And like most book clubs, it also means there are titles you’d never pick up on your own. Murder on the Orient Express is one of these. Mysteries and thrillers are not my genre. I’m not interested in looking for clues or remembering what someone said that one time that contradicts what they […]
Does The Dog Die? YES.
Hey, you know what’s a good idea? Read a disturbing, scary piece of fiction right after reading a disturbing piece of realistic fiction. Because why not make yourself feel creeped out in a different way? I have no idea why I added Bird Box to my TBR list. A few friends reviewed it over on Goodreads and they all said it was creepy and for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to add it. And having a new Kindle Paperwhite means instant downloads. […]
I’m not upset. Why would you be?
This book is going to be difficult to review because I don’t want to give anything away but I really want people to read it. Paul and Claire are meeting Paul’s brother Serge and his wife Babette for dinner. They do not want to go. Immediately I wanted to know the family history. Serge seems like he’s been steamrolling Paul all their lives and yet Paul knows he won’t skip out on the meeting. He fantasizes about all the things he can do to get […]
Someone tell me what they think the title means because I need to talk about it.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat did I just read and why did I like it? And why is it called Universal Harvester? I need this to be a book club book so someone can tell me what they thought was happening and we can hash out the whys. Darnielle’s writing is breathtaking. I mean this literally. There is a sentence with a pronoun shift that made me gasp and I got a sinking feeling in my stomach. One pronoun scared me. A PRONOUN. He has a powerful gift. There are […]
Yeah, but WHY are they friends?
Jules miraculously lands at a creative arts summer camp her junior year of high school. Even more miraculous, she is somehow taken in by the most popular crowd there. The six of them decide they are the Interestings and Jules redefines her life based on what they see. For reasons that Jules never understands, the beautiful and perfect Ash becomes her best friend. Jules doesn’t see why she, or any of the Interstings want her around and she knows at any minute they will realize they’ve made […]
Fluff is a great name for a cat.
We all have bad days. Difficult months. Challenging years. But every once in awhile, it seems like the stars of “fuck you.” align to create something so cruel that it should be fiction and then hands it to someone and walks away. That’s what happened to Tig in less than one year. People want to make sense of things, so they say it’s random, or God only gives you what He thinks you can handle, or they wonder what you did in a previous life. […]