So I love Mary Roach — I’ve read all of her other books, and her writing style, sense of humor and insatiable curiosity make for great reading. I was hoping that My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places would be like a behind the scenes of her research for her other books. It’s not, but it’s still a fun read. My Planet actually consists of essays written by Roach for Reader’s Digest in the early 2000s. So the topics tend to be a little mundane, and […]
Now I’ve read all of Moriarty’s books (sadface)
The Last Anniversary stars Sophie Honeywell, who broke up with her boyfriend a few years ago, hours before the elaborate proposal he had planned. Since then, he’s married and had a child. Sophie remains, as she calls it, “mortifyingly single”. Then Tom’s aunt dies, and leaves her house on Scribbly Gum island (damn Australians) to Sophie — along with the mystery associated with the island. “Sometimes a girl has to stop waiting around and come up with her own fairytale ending.” As usual, Moriarty juggles a […]
Sophie Stark
I freaking devoured this book. It was so good! The writing, the suspense, all of it. And while it’s hard to really love Sophie Stark, I did find myself feeling like I understood her at least, by the end. “It’s hard for me to talk about love,’ she said. ‘I think movies are the way I do that.” The Life and Death of Sophie Stark is a collection of stories about Sophie Stark, told from perspectives of her lovers, coworkers, friends and her brother. They detail the […]
Mercy Lavinia “Vinnie” Bump
I read Benjamin’s Alice Have I Been a few years ago. In that one, she creates a novel around the young lady who supposedly inspired Alice in Wonderland. I didn’t really like it very much, but I’d heard that The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb was worth a shot, so I grabbed it when I saw it at Half Price Books. I’m glad I did — it was a good story with a fascinating cast. “That’s just it, don’t you see? I don’t want to be taken […]
So. Much. Talking.
Orson Scott Card wrote Xenocide after the original Ender’s Game, and Speaker for the Dead. Then he went back and wedged in Ender in Exile between the first two, so I guess technically this is the fourth book…but it’ll always be third in my heart! It’s also third in my list of favorites of the original quintet. “The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.” So the fleet is still on its way […]
Good Idea, So-So Execution
The Immortals consists of several linked short stories that James Gunn published in various magazines in the 1950s. The basic premise is that a man named Cartwright has blood that allows him immortality, and a blood transfusion from him every 30 days could keep another person alive indefinitely as well. The stories focus on the rich men who want to find Cartwright, the doctor who wants to synthesize his blood to mass produce, the consequences of Cartwright reproducing and the effects on his ancestors. As […]
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