Like many people I binged watched Netflix’s Thirteen Reasons Why when it came out; I’d hoped read the book ahead of time but my library had a wait-list. The series and the novel are incredibly different, sure the same beats are hit but the series expands around the bare bones of the novel to justify thirteen episodes. “No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.” So Clay […]
Yer in the Army Now Harry!
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix or “Why sometimes, maybe, you should tell children things instead of just staying quiet and hoping they don’t get involved” Perhaps I’m listening to these too close together but I’ve got a few bones to pick. First of all, Wizarding community, have you ever heard of a Diet Coke? A healthy percentage of the Hogwarts population are either Muggle born or have one Muggle parent. Are you telling me, everyone got together and decided they were just going […]
Typical Early Moyes
My affection for Jojo Moyes has been well documented throughout my years on CBR so I was ecstatic to see The Horse Dancer was finally released in the United States! This is an older novel and it bears more resemblance to Ship of Brides or Silver Bay than her more recent novels like Me Before You and its sequel Me After You. Like most of Moyes novels there are various viewpoints from several main characters whose stories intertwine to form a charming story. Natasha is a busy lawyer navigating the biggest case of her […]
“Maybe that was closer to the truth–we weren’t captor and captive, but two animals in different compartments of the same cage. Hers was just slightly larger.”
The Woman in Cabin 10 falls in the genre of “unreliable female narrator suspense/thriller” novel that has become increasingly popular in the last decade. Lo Blacklock is a British journalist whose home is burgled, while she is home, a few days before she is set to profile a cruise to Norway for her magazine. She is a bit shaken and has taken to self medicating with alcohol and anxiety medication. Soon after boarding the ship she has a fateful meeting with a woman in the […]
St. Joan of the Arches
McDonald’s is pretty ubiquitous in America; with movies like The Founder and books like Napoli’s Ray & Joan more people are aware of the people responsible for the the Dollar Menu and Happy Meal. Napoli’s biography details the life of Ray Kroc, who eventually bought the company from the McDonald brothers, and his relationship with his third wife, Joan. “You fell in love with your present wife before you married your second wife.” “Yeah… yup, yup,” said Ray, grinning as the mostly female studio audience fell […]
“Daring to think that the rules do not apply is the mark of a visionary. It’s also a symptom of narcissism. “
This is certainly a tear-jerker. I only picked this one up because I thought it was by Ariel Leve, whose memoir I read last year & mostly enjoyed, but I was wrong. Luckily, this mistake led to reading Ariel Levy’s very well written but very sad memoir. From the back cover: When thirty-eight-year-old New Yorker writer Ariel Levy left for a reporting trip to Mongolia in 2012, she was pregnant, married, financially secure, and successful on her own terms. A month later, none of that […]
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