Dave Barry released this book (which I bought for a quarter at a book fair) in 1988, and it basically contains all of his newspaper articles for the previous several years. Despite the dated politics (it contains a lot of Nixon & Reagan jokes), it holds up surprisingly well, considering it’s 27 years old (oh my god that means my little sister is also 27 years old…). A lot of it remains very relevant, overshadowing that which does not (such as a whole chapter on the […]
Dooce!
I started reading Dooce.com around 2003 or 2004 — whenever she had her first baby (the main subject of this novel) — and spent a few weeks reading through the hilarious archives. The book came out a few years later, and by then I’d kind of quit checking in on the antics of Heather Armstrong — mostly because it had turned primarily into a design blog which isn’t really my thing. I checked in a few days ago when I finished this book, read that her […]
An Adequate View
I…kind of liked this book. It was…okay. Overall, the annoying/dull parts ended up getting balanced with the interesting parts, so it kind of ended up being average. Appropriate for a novel where one of the main characters owns a hotel called “The Adequate View”. “Then she smiled, and in that instant, if such a thing were possible, Pasquale fell in love, and he would remain in love for the rest of his life–not so much with the woman, whom he didn’t even know, but with the moment.” A lot happens […]
Finally read this one!
Quite a few Cannonballers have reviewed Code Name Verity over the past few years, and just about everyone has raved about it (less so for the sequel, which bums me out, but I plan to read it anyway). I finally snagged myself a copy, and I have to say I totally loved this book — it lives up to the hype! I have two weeks. You’ll shoot me at the end no matter what I do. The first half of the novel takes place in the form of […]
Impressive story of two incredible women
I picked this up for a dollar at our city’s big library sale, having never heard of it or the author, but intrigued by the cover. Nothing Daunted turned out to be quite the interesting read! Based on letters written to her grandmother, Dorothy Woodruff, and Dorothy’s best friend, Rosamond “Ros” Underwood, Wickenden pieced together the extraordinary lives of these two women, focusing on the year they spent teaching in the Rockies in 1916. Two society ladies, raised in great wealth and privilege, decided to take […]
Definitely not Ready Player One
I really tried to like this. I really liked Ready Player One — in fact, that was probably one of the best books I read all year. In fact, I almost used an Audible credit to purchase Armada, since I liked the audio version of Ready Player One so much (both read by Wil Wheaton). Luckily, the library had Armada available, and I was able to find out for free that Cline couldn’t duplicate the magic of his debut. “I had been hoping and waiting for some mind-blowingly fantastic, world-altering […]
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