You Cannonballers know how much I love me some Veronica Mars. I love the TV series, the film, and the first book, which I reviewed for CBR6. I have eagerly awaited the arrival of the second book, and it finally showed up at my library! I tore into it and devoured it in a large gulp this afternoon. Mr. Kiss and Tell picks up a few months after The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line, where Weevil is awaiting the results of his criminal trial, and Veronica is […]
This did not live up to its promise.
I’ve been reading a lot of dystopian fiction these days. I think the sense of impending doom surrounding academia, plus my graduation with no immediate job prospects in sight has me retreating to dire fiction to be comforted. Or maybe that’s what I’m telling myself? Either way, I’ve got a lot of reading in my stack, and Edan Lepucki’s California has been on a lot of 2014 lists. I thought I would give it a shot. Cal and Frida are a married couple who have […]
Continuing my Virginia Woolf love
I am a huge nerd for anything related to Virginia Woolf. Ever since I read Mrs. Dalloway for a modern lit seminar and then took a Virginia Woolf seminar as an undergrad, I’ve been hooked (fun sidenote: my professor called us the Woolf Pack. It was awesome). I read The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One’s Own, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, The Years, Orlando, and her play Freshwater for that class (The Chancellor bought me Between the Acts a […]
A balm in Gilead
Last year for CBR6, I read Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and HATED IT. The writing is great, but the hoarding completely got in the way of the story for me. My friend C suggested that I give Gilead a try, so I found the audiobook at my local library. I finished it last night on a late commute home from school. I’m sure the other travelers on the interstate must have looked askance at the 30-year-old white lady weeping at her steering wheel. It’s one of […]
How Jane and a Fox ease the pain of cruelty
The Chancellor read a comics compilation this Cannonball read, and he recommended Fanny Britt’s Jane, the Fox, and Me. I was highly intrigued–I like Jane Eyre, and I LOVE foxes. So I was excited to see what this was all about. I was not prepared to work out my tear ducts. Hélène is a bullied young teenager in Quebec. She used to be friends with the popular girls in school, but now they gawk and giggle when she walks by, and they write terrible things […]
The Martian: better than disco.
I’m not much of a space nerd, but I do enjoy a good suspense action thriller. I’ve heard nothing but amazing things about Andy Weir’s The Martian, so I decided to check it out. Oh. My. Wow. Is it possible to give a five-star book six stars? Mark Watney is a botanist/engineer on a six-man crew doing a short mission on Mars. Midway through, a dust storm hits, and Watney is stabbed. Presuming him dead (and rightfully so, because his vitals have gone blank on […]
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