I had this book on my list because a couple of Cannonballers (hi, yesknopemaybe!) had previously enjoyed it and said it was a new take on The Westing Game. In my head, I had this down as a Zilpha Keatley Snyder book I had somehow missed, even though I loved all her others. So I read this whole thing waiting for the ghosts or magic to show up. Turns out ZKS did NOT write The Westing Game, I am a dolt, and this is just a lovely […]
Dissension in the book club
I thoroughly enjoyed this one, but the majority of my sci-fi book club had some serious issues and eye-rolls with it, and our fearless leader didn’t even finish it. So I feel like I can’t wholeheartedly recommend it, but I really liked it! It’s post-apocalyptic, after the Gone Away War, when the world has unleashed reality-eating bombs at each other. Cities, towns, countrysides – all just disappear. It’s a war no one can win, and the survivors are left with the fallout: a non-radioactive “Stuff” […]
Sansa and the house elves
My sweetie and I have taken multiple multi-state road trips, and we always have problems with food. I always want to try somewhere new and local, enjoying the brief hope and possibility that it’ll be the best place I’ve ever eaten. He always wants Panera or Cracker Barrel. After a few too many Winchester diners and disappointing local ‘flavor’, I started to understand his choices. With Panera and Cracker Barrel, you always know what you’re getting. It’s the same in West Virginia as it is in Missouri, […]
Almost worth it for the recipes
I was totally, completely unfair to this book, and I can’t even really say that I’m sorry. It wasn’t great to start with, but then I put it down halfway through because the new Lois McMaster Bujold came in the mail, and duh. So reading half a mediocre book, then reading your favorite author, and then finishing the mediocre book makes the mediocre book seem even worse. It’s a “cozy” “mystery” (double air-quotes because it’s not all that mysterious) about a baker who runs over a man […]
Like a hug from your favorite aunt after a bout of homesickness
“Jole wondered how his personal life had grown so tangled in so short a time. Vorkosigans did that to you, though. Flung you off cliffs, expected you to absorb the flying lessons on the way down. And yet, if some – not good, not evil – if some ambiguity fairy suddenly appeared amidst the screams and offered to undo it all, roll back your life to Go, you would refuse her.” Spoilers for Lois’s last book, and I doubt this will make any sense for […]
I know all there is to know about the Lion Game…
Okay, that’s not true at all. I know very little about the Lion Game. This book is only 157 pages, and it could have used a few more. A lot is packed into those pages. It starts out well, but then it feels like a snowball gaining momentum down a hill, and I’m not sure I followed everything in the second half. Although I do know this. See exhibit A, our heroine, Telzey: She is 15. FIFTEEN. Way to go, 1973! Anyway. Telzey has psi […]
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