Someone, who I am too lazy to go back and give credit to- sorry, wrote a review about Alex, Approximately and compared it to You Got Mail which instantly attracted my Meg Ryan/ Tom Hanks loving self. This is an adorable YA that is too quirky to be real life but not quite as ridiculous as some of the other books I’ve read recently from the same genre. Bailey has been chatting with a boy, who goes by Alex online, in a film lovers forum. “Alex” keeps asking Bailey […]
Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely
Following Escape Camp 14 with Ruthless was a fairly easy transition. The work camps of North Korea have eerie similarities with the SeaOrg work conditions within Scientology. Miscavige makes the association, lumping in Nazi Germany, himself. Ron Miscavige, father of cult leader David Miscagive, left the Church of Scientology in 2012 after 40 decades involvement including 27 years in the SeaOrg. He brought his family, including teenage son David, into the fold and devoted his life to the “church” included traveling to England for classes. At sixteen David left […]
An Unreliable Narrator Escapes to Freedom
“High School students in America debate why President Roosevelt didn’t bomb the rail lines to Hitler’s camps. Their children may ask, a generation from now, why the West stared at far clearer satellite images of Kim Jong Il’s camps, and did nothing.” Escape from Camp 14 is the story of Shin Dong-hyuk, the only known person to be born in a North Korean work camp and successfully escape. Shin’s mother and father were both prisoners in Camp 14 for crimes committed long before Shin was born; Shin […]
Broadway to Bluths
I am so excited Jill Soloway is writing a book for you. But Jill is an accomplished writer. The following is a short list of what I am: 1. Actor 2. Husband 3. Daddy 4. Grandparent 5. Lecturer 6. Bookstore co-owner Short list of what I am not: 1. Writer So Jeffery Tambor did not set out to write a memoir, he was approached and eventually convinced, but he delivered an A+ series of essays about his personal and professional life. His early life in […]
“Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.”
Badkittyuno raved about Openly Straight and its sequel Honestly Ben so, despite my old age and the crotchety nature in which I reacted to the last YA novel I read, I picked it up from the library. It was definitely better than The Upside of Unrequited with slightly more believable, fleshed out main characters. Claire Olivia is a bit of a manic pixie dream girl but she is a minor character, and not a love interest, so I’ll let that slide. Rafe was openly gay in liberal Boulder, Colorado but chooses […]
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
I was always a voracious reader but in reality I recycled the same 10 or 15 books a year with a few new ones sprinkled in for good measure. This isn’t a bad system but it would have made for a very repetitive Cannonball profile and one thing my CBR journey has pushed me to do in the past three and a half years is to read new books: different genres and entire author oeuvres etc. So now that I’m on my fourth year I figure […]
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