Another witty, political novel by Christopher Buckley, in which a gorgeous, intelligent woman teams up with a WASP-y politician/lawyer/TV pundit to do…something in Washington. But you know what? Buckley still manages to crack me up with his writing, even though some of his characters (particularly those with breasts) could be lifted from any one of his novels and dropped into another without missing a beat. Because the characters aren’t really the point — the story is. And the story is pretty damn good. In Little […]
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
I really like John Irving novels. I like how they have no real plot, that they’re just sprawling histories of an individual, or a family, and that he sucks you into these peoples’ lives over the course of 500 pages or so. While The Hotel New Hampshire was not my favorite of what I’ve read of Irving’s so far, I still enjoyed it and the themes that he tends to hit on again and again. “Human beings are remarkable – at what we can learn to […]
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
And here it is. Just when I thought I wouldn’t read anything better than The Fault in Our Stars this year, Rainbow Rowell proves me to be horribly, wonderfully wrong. You want to know how good this book was? It was so good that I started listening to it as an audiobook in my car, got frustrated that I don’t spend enough time in my car every day (I average about two hours commuting to and from work every day) to listen to it quickly enough, […]
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
The weakest of the three Rainbow Rowell books I’ve read so far (Eleanor & Park and Fangirl–review coming soon–being the others), Attachments is nonetheless a wonderful story told in an interesting way. “Every woman wants a man who’ll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.” In case you missed Caitlin-G’s review a few days ago (this is what happens when I borrow all her books–everything I write comes a few days after her submissions), Attachments is about two women who work for a newspaper. […]
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
I listened to this one as an audiobook, which was particularly fun, because Lynn Redgrave read it aloud, and her fancy, old lady British voice was so wonderful it practically put a good taste in my mouth. Inkheart (which was also turned into a movie with Brendan Fraser that wasn’t supposed to be very good, which makes sense, because as much as much as I love Brendan Fraser, he would be terrible in the lead role of Mo and my god I’ve got an issue […]
The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno by Ellen Bryson
Sometimes, grabbing a random book from Half-Price because it’s $2 and brightly colored pays off. The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno was strange but magical, and I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would — especially after reading some not so complimentary reviews on Goodreads. “Our uniqueness alone is enough to justify our special place in the world. But even more, our destiny insists we use our gifts to show others who they really are or show them what, in an ideal world, they […]
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