I’m one of those girls who beauty stuff just doesn’t come naturally to: I’m pretty sure there was some class the rest of you went to on a day I was absent that explained things like how to get your eyeliner to do that wing thing or exactly what you’re supposed to do when faced with both a hairdryer and a round brush. It’s the kind of knowledge my sisters – and I have four of them – seemed to glean through some sort of […]
Here we are, all thinking that it’s the Zombies we’re going to have to protect our brains from, but what if it’s really our computers?
This technological thriller is the kind of book that is written to terrify you into not wanting to so much as glance at your smart phone, lest it attack. AKA, the PERFECT kind of book to be reading on your Kindle late at night; AKA the book my 5th-grade-teaching, technophobe, grammarian grandmother would have agreed with 5000%. It’s a book that takes a serious look at the dependency of people on technology and one of the (oh so numerous ways) that can come back to […]
I’m not sure using kids as spies is a great strategy, but since we did it, we might as well hear about it
Did you know that a 9-year-old boy once wandered into the camp of the British Army, took stock of their troop count & weapons hoard, convinced them he was just a dope who was lost & looking for a mill, all under the orders of General George Washington? Yeah, me neither. Enter Ariel Bradley: Spy for General Washington. The book was well written, and the pictures were engaging: I think the Kindle formatting was not very accessible (it chopped up the pictures and pages […]
I do have a soft-spot for an Emma
Colleen O’Rourke is happy with her life – she’s good at playing matchmaker for the other people in her small town (7 babies, and married &/or happily engaged couples to her credit!), but since she got her heartbroken some years ago, she’s mostly stuck to short-term dating for herself. Which she’s perfectly happy with. Mostly. But now her best friend is getting married (a couple from a previous book in the series, I’m sure), her twin brother is being cagey about who he’s seeing, […]
I just want to be Team Heroine, but I couldn’t even manage that
I know I originally added this to my TBR pile because there was an excerpt somewhere about the main character, a “girl who couldn’t be touched.” Since I’m pretty much a version of that in real life (only I don’t hurt other people when I am touched; they hurt me), I stuck it on the list and waited for it to come around. I was not expecting some sort of dystopian, end-of-the-world battle of good vs. evil, which is definitely the direction the book went […]
“When I try now to sort out who knew what and who knew nothing, who knew everything and who was a fraud, I have to stop and give it up, it makes my head spin.”
I finished Fingersmith a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve had a hard time putting together my thoughts on it. I mean: I liked it. A lot. Sarah Waters is a new-to-me author, whose backlist I’m certainly going to be checking out, because Damn, can that lady craft a story. I have a lot of kudos to give the book, and I’m going to try to get to them all in this review. Where I’m conflicted though, is… the twisty-turny nature of the plot. Even […]