Thank you, whichever Cannonballer recommended this series to me when I said how much I was enjoying some of Sarah Addison Allen’s other books. It was an adorable, and I can’t wait to read the next one. To pass it along, anyone who likes Sarah Addison Allen or Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic) should definite check out the Waverleys. It was full of all that sweet magic and wonderful family drama. “She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to […]
Florida, Never Change
I kind of love Dave Barry — I’ve never really read his humor column, but I’ve read his two previous novels (Big Trouble and Tricky Business) several times. They’re very, very silly books — but the writing is fun and the plots never stop to take so much as a breath. He’s got an excellent sense of humor, and the ability to poke a little fun at just about everything. The sort of read that’s great for a road trip, and since that’s what I had in store […]
Definite Improvement
Okay, so this is the fourth Odd Thomas book, and while it still wasn’t as good as the first, I think it was a definite improvement over the rather lame second and third books. Lots of weird characters in this one, like any Dean Koontz novel, but it seemed to have better flow and Odd felt a bit more on his game than before (I guess that monastery stay did him some good!) “It is also essential that good men and women not be educated and […]
I don’t think I could have lasted a week
This is so not my usual reading material, but my aunt recommended it and was kind enough to lend me a copy, so I figured I would give it a shot. I ended up really enjoying most of it, and I’m glad I tried something outside my comfort zone. As a bit of background, I am a liberal atheist who lives in a very conservative state and works for a very Christian company. My parents made us go to church until I was a teenager, then stopped for […]
Straddling that fine line between funny and obnoxious
There are parts of Sarah Silverman’s memoir, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, that are very, very funny. Most of them involve her family, primarily her father and his accent, written out phonetically and played for great laughs. And Silverman, like many comedians, is great at poking fun at herself, and it’s fun to laugh along with her. She also tells great stories about the men and women she has worked with over the years — doing stand up with Louis C.K., the writers on The Sarah […]
The Ballad of Susan and Roland
Oh, this is definitely one of the best Dark Tower books. We’ve known all along that something terrible happened to a girl named Susan Delgado, and that this terrible thing affected Roland deeply, turning him into the man he is now. And here, in Wizard and Glass, we learn the whole story. “True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome… except, of course, to those who share the kisses, […]
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