A lot of times, when I’m scrolling through the books that NetGalley has chosen to send me, I end up passing by titles that, like this review’s book, have “:A Novel” as part of their title. Having too numerously been burned by capital N ‘Novels:’ books that tend to take themselves far more seriously than they deserve as they retread familiar ground in the least novel of ways, & spout trope after trope and leaving me growly and unsatisfied, has obviously imparted some bias. I […]
Pro-bookworm propaganda
You know I’m all about anything that makes reading seem like the enjoyable pastime we all know it truly is, so Carmen Oliver’s Bears Make the Best Reading Buddies hits my niche dead on. Adelaide has no need for her teacher to assign her a reading buddy; She has brought her own – a bear. Her bear likes to help her pick out good books to read, is a great listener, and curls up to create a comfy space for her to read in. Adelaide’s […]
“Welcome to the trip, man…”
One of the most contradictory elements of my reading life is my love for comics and my inability to calmly and peacefully wait for the next issue of said comics. Their episodic nature is frustrating to my inherent need to binge-read an entire story-line. For example, I subscribe to a favorite author’s entire series (Gail Simone’s recent run on Batgirl, for example), then let them pile up till I have the complete story, and read them all at once. I don’t have a problem (usually, […]
I usually hate writing reviews about books I didn’t enjoy: This one made me mad enough that it was kind of fun.
A few weeks ago, I wrote this tweet: I wrote that note to myself less than 50 pages into the book The Diabetic and The Dietitian by Dr. Ellen Albertson and Michael Albertson. And then I repeated the sentiment approximately every other page of the book I managed to read over the course of the last three weeks. The book actually isn’t very long, and would, in the normal course of things, take me less than a few hours to read. But that did not […]
“Congrats baby, soon you’ll be in good hands…”
For those of you who only know me through Cannonball Reads (as opposed to my blog, or Twitter or Tumblr or wherever), you may not know that the Sister Who Lives In My House* and her husband recently had a baby. An adorable, Auntie-melting, bundle of joy. Who also cries a lot and decided not to eat all that much for his first weeks on earth, thereby scaring the crap out of his first time, already anxious and definitely not prepared for this, no matter […]
“We were always stronger, and we were told that meant we were better.”
So, if you’re a YA reader, you’ve probably come across some of Sarah Rees Brennan’s stuff before – The Demon’s Lexicon, The Lyburn Legacy, The Bane Chronicles. I have only read book one of The Demon’s Lexicon series, and – to be honest – I forgot that I had read it until I went on Goodreads to post this book’s review and mark everything of hers as TBR. In my review of that book I mentioned that the author had created interesting characters, even if […]
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