So yes, Fielding kills off Mark Darcy in the third book of the Bridget Jones series. That was very upsetting. But honestly, I thought this novel was better than the second one, Edge of Reason, which was pretty Darcy-centric. Mad About the Boy is all about Bridget, just like the first book, and her shitty love life and her faltering career and her obnoxious (but we love them!) friends. There’s a new element to Mad About the Boy, though, that was probably the best part of the book: Bridget […]
Silly, gory fun
I was recommended this book by the library’s eBook rental service, of all things. Not sure why, since I haven’t really read a lot of horror on that site, but it was a hit with me nonetheless. Horrorstör starts out funny, then gets really good and gross (and still pretty funny). It will probably make a great movie one day — though I doubt I’ll have the guts to see it (I prefer my horror written down, rather than on the screen). Horrorstör is a horror story […]
“A Novel in A-Flat”
There were parts of Adam Langer’s Ellington Boulevard that I really liked, and other parts that I really didn’t, so I figure that evens out to about 3 stars, right? This is one of those books with a handful of characters who all end up connected in one way or another. A lot of the novel rests on the characters — their actions towards each other propel everything. Basically, anything involving the tenant, the buyer, the buyer’s husband, the buyer’s husband’s girlfriend and the tenant’s dog were all golden (this is […]
“Odd”, Indeed
Did you know Koontz has written like, seven Odd Thomas books now? I know I’ve read the first two, maybe the third…. So I thought I’d reread the series from the beginning at get myself reacquainted with this…special…young man (especially since my library has the whole series on eBook!) “I’ve since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.” So, Odd Thomas lives up […]
Fascinating premise, boring execution
How strange to spend a whole novel waiting for the main character to die again… Every time Ursula Todd dies, “darkness falls” and she starts all over again, at her birth. She has vague memories of her previous lives, and is able to use these to avoid making the same mistakes again (for instance, although it takes a few tries, she saves her family from a flu epidemic that would have otherwise killed them all). It’s a really neat idea, but the novel itself varies from depressing […]
So now we’ve got the gang together…
How nice that my cannonball should hit on one of my all-time favorite books! After we finish chasing the man in black around the desert to the sea, The Drawing of the Three opens on Roland, passed out on a beach. He’s given a lovely wake up call by one of the greatest King monsters ever, the lobstrosities (whose persistent questioning was truly terrifying on audiobook — nice work), who tear off a couple of his fingers and his big toe. Roland is supposed to be seeking out his ka, […]
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