Oh, Dean Koontz, I just can’t kick you. I picked up one of your novels sometime in middle school — False Memory, I believe, which on re-read was wildly inappropriate for an 11-year-old but probably better than all the Robin Cook and Michael Palmer I was also reading at the time. I’ve read all your books, most of them more than once, and as soon as a new one hits paperback, it’s sitting on the overburdened Dean Koontz shelf of my bookshelf. Between you and Stephen King, 1/4 […]
450 pages in one evening…that’s a good book!
This book was so. freaking. good. Just go read it. The book starts with a murder at a fundraising event for an elementary school called Pirriwee Public in Australia. Then we back up six months and meet the characters. “Glittery girl” Madeline has a teenager daughter with her ex, whose child with his new yoga-loving wife is in Madeline’s youngest (with her new husband)’s kindergarten class. Then there’s gorgeous, wealthy Celeste and her twin boys, also in the same class. And new to the area Jane, who is […]
Bratty Geniuses Unite!
The Genius Wars finishes up the Genius Trilogy by Catherine Jinks. Judging by her website, it’s also the last in the series, which I think is a shame. It may not be a great, groundbreaking novel, but it would be fun to watch Cadel and Sonja team up and solve crimes, under the tutelage of Saul and Fiona Greeniaus. Also–it ended very abruptly which kind of annoyed me. There’s so much more ground to cover! “You don’t believe it because you don’t understand,” he said hoarsely. […]
Revival by Stephen King
And I end my year of reading & reviews with a resounding “meh”. Stephen King’s latest, Revival, had some high points, but mostly it just seemed to drag on in a way that his other novels rarely do for me. Jamie Morton was a six year old boy when he first met his church’s new preacher, Charlie Jacobs. Jacobs, who had an incredible fascination with electricity and its healing capabilities, took an instant liking to little Jamie and they became friends (well, as much as a […]
Genius Squad (Genius #2) by Catherine Jinks
130 books, which is 2.5 Cannonballs, and probably as much as I’m going to accomplish this year (I might finish my audiobook today–we’ll see). Catherine Jinks’s Genius Squad was a good way to wrap up the year–some light, silly fun. Note: this is the second book in the Genius trilogy (I reviewed the first, Evil Genius, a few months ago), so spoilers exist for the first novel. At the end of Evil Genius, Cadel Piggott finds out that his parents are not his parents, and his real father is […]
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
As anyone who has read Mary Roach knows, this woman will do anything in the name of research on her chosen subject (and if you haven’t read any Mary Roach, you should do something about that). In Packing for Mars, she experiences zero gravity (or as close as you can get while still on earth). In Spook, she tracks down scientists who have attempted to measure the weight of the soul. She’s gone to funeral homes, packing plants and countless universities. he’s admitted several times that librarians find her […]
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