I follow The Oatmeal (Matthew Inman) on Instagram and he recently annouced he had a new book coming out which inspired me to read some of his other works, I’ve only read How to Tell if You’re Cat is Plotting to Kill You. My local library had My Dog: The Paradox: A Lovable Discourse about Man’s Best Friend and Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants available so I took a break from more strenuous literature and spent an evening reading adult comics. My Dog: The Paradox, a lovely ode […]
Double Cannonball into the Ocean!
I’m not going to lie, I made sure to time the completion of this so I could use that title. Neil Gaiman is one of the best world builders in business and The Ocean at the End of the Lane is no exception. Why did I wait so long to introduce Gaiman into my life? I needed an audiobook reset after sloughing through Dearie and this was perfect. A charming story read by the charming author himself. At the beginning of the novel our unnamed […]
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is Completely Wonderful
I saw Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine on several “Must Read” lists at the beginning of the year and immediately added it to my TBR. This is not a short book, it’s not a long book either, but it’s an incredibly short read. “A philosophical question: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? And if a woman who’s wholly alone occasionally talks to a pot plant, is she certifiable? I think that […]
The Book That Devoured September Like Julie Devoured Sole Meunière
I started this audio book, 20 CDs clocking in at a whopping 26 hours, on September 8th! It is a bit of a bloated mess at times, trust me I could have trimmed some fat, but overall it is a well researched biography of a woman (who died just short of her 92nd birthday) who achieved great things and meant a lot of millions of people. Julia Child was born in Pasadena, CA with a silver spoon in her mouth. She had a mostly idyllic […]
Family Secrets
I swear someone posted a review of this on CBR but I can’t find the post now… Saints for All Occasions is one of those generational tales that bounces between the present day and the events in the past that shaped the landscape of the future. It’s a popular storytelling device, even more popular now with TV shows like This is Us, that works well here. In the past Nora and Theresa Flynn are sisters who leave their family farm in Ireland for a new future […]
“When people asked him why he didn’t work with those viruses, he replied, I don’t particularly feel like dying.”
THIS is how you write gripping medical related non-fiction! Part medical mystery, part horror story and 100% true. While it wasn’t the barrel of laughs Get Well Soon was earlier this year it was infinitely more entertaining than Pox, despite scaring me shitless about ever going to Africa or getting close to a monkey. This isn’t a book for everyone because, well, Ebola is creepy. Even now there isn’t a surefire cure and the path to death is a gruesome, bloody mess. The term “liquefied” is used several […]
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