I knew that I had missed something important when I saw the number of my friends on Goodreads who had read this book and loved it, and then was chastised by someone for not having read it yet once I had put it on my “to read” shelf. All right already! 🙂 It was the next book I picked up, and everyone was right: it was fantastic! I finished this book weeks ago, and I am a big jet lagged so this will be brief. […]
Was the son of a preacher man
A good friend and I have become book pen pans: we read things, then mail them to each other. It pretty much rules. This book was one she sent to me, with the caveat that it was pretty sad. I struggled through it and put it down many times, but by the time I was done, it was like swallowing unpleasant medicine: good for you in the long run, though a bit hard to get down. This is a quiet novel about life and death […]
Lascivious Lacerterlia = Lots of Laughs
Christopher Moore is one of my favorite authors, and I delight in introducing him to others. I selected this having never read it myself for my Book Club. You would think I might have gleaned a bit about it from the title, buuuut I didn’t really think about it. It was, shall we say, a vivid step into the crazy and humorous world he has created in present day Pine Cove, California, and warrants a very health suspension of disbelief. Primordial lizards, randy citizens, murder, […]
Big Brother is always watching
I always tell people that 1984 is my favorite book (at least that’s what I tell people that I can’t tell the title of my actual favorite book to, “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff Christ’s Childhood Pal.” If I’m honest, I’d put 1984 at number two overall, number one in literary classics) so I figured I should reread it again for the third (fourth?) time to have a firm appreciation of it. It never fails to blow my mind. The fact that Orwell could […]
Magic as Science. And a way to get the ladies.
Someone suggested we read this as a book club selection but figured “they were the last person on Earth to not have read it” but I was apparently living under a rock as I hadn’t even heard of Clarke’s magical read. With the pending BBC miniseries I was eager to see what all the buzz was about and was not disappointed. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell are two magicians in England in the 1800s who are destined to bring magic back to England, the premise […]
If Wes Anderson were to pen a novel
The Elegance of the Hedgehog is just waiting for its Wes Anderson adaptation. The whole way through I felt like I was reading one of his movies. The characters were almost distractingly whimsical, more caricatures than real people, and it took me a while to get into this book. About 80 pages in I finally found my stride, which was helped by a strong commitment to suspension of disbelief, and I was hooked. This book follows two protagonist: a precocious and suicidal young girl and […]
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