For World Book Day, Rainbow Rowell wrote this charming short story about a high school senior, Elena, and her experience waiting in line for the newest Star Wars theatrical release. My dad introduced the original Star Wars trilogy to my sister & me when we were young; I saw Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones in theaters when I was in middle school before my interest fizzled out. My husband, however, is a huge nerd who loves Star Wars whose excitement is contagious- we […]
Happy St Patrick’s Day
I worked late tonight but felt obligated to write my review of the charming Brooklyn on St. Patrick’s Day in honor of Eilis Lacey’s Irish heritage. Eilis is from a small Irish town where jobs are scarce following WW2. She moves to America where she works in a store and begins taking bookkeeping classes at Brooklyn College. At a local dance hall she meets an Italian boy, Tony, who she begins a relationship with despite their difference in heritage (which is a huge deal). After […]
What happens in Janus, doesn’t always stay on Janus
I believe I am the third or fourth Cannonballer to post a review on M.L Stedman’s the Light Between Oceans this week alone; I would imagine we are all Pajiba readers as well who happened to see the trailer for the movie adaptation the site recently posted. Tom Sherbourne came to tend the lighthouse on Janus, a tiny island off the coast of Australia, after several years at the front lines of WWI. Before he leaves for a several years stay he meets Isabel in […]
Adulthood for beginners
I haven’t read a true comic book since Calvin and Hobbes in grade school but I am in love with Sarah Andersen’s cartoons, which I discovered through Instagram, and impulsively bought her new book (out today!) with part of a birthday gift card. While it took all of fifteen minutes to read it was an enjoyable fifteen minutes- also, the cover page has felt letters so that’s a plus! I wished Andersen had taken a page out of Allie Brosh’s book and inserted some personal […]
Not to be political, but Obama was wrong…
So I heard about Fates & Furies at the end of the year when President Obama announced it as his favorite book of the year and the premise seemed interesting. However, it seems, President Obama and I have differing opinions… The novel is a decades long narrative of Lancelot (Lotto) and Mathide Satterwhite’s marriage, beginning with the courtship of Lotto’s parents and ending only when both Lotto and Mathide have died. It’s pretentious and full of unbelievable (in the literal sense) dialogue & character actions. […]
Thank you for being a friend
I’ve never seen Golden Girls; Rue McClanahan’s autobiography was brought to my attention through the series of algorithms that comprise Goodreads and despite my ignorance of McClanahan’s body of work it was a pretty decent read. I found a few similarities between Rue’s story and Penny Marshall’s. Both women got married young, after getting pregnant and both women quickly divorced the father’s of their children; Rue was a little bit older than Penny but both women came to prominence in the late 70s/ early 80s- […]
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