I love a retelling of a classic story. I particularly have a soft spot for Cinderella. I mean, let us never underestimate the glories of Gus Gus. While this retelling did not feature delightful animated mice, the third Bridgerton novel by Julia Quinn tells us the story of second son, Benedict and the woman he falls in love with at a masquerade ball. However, Sophie is the by blow of an earl but following his death has been relegated to the life of lady’s maid […]
Enter Raylan Givens
When trying to decide which book to read for the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge Task 2, a book written by someone over the age of 65, I discovered that Elmore Leonard hadn’t started his Raylan books until he was in his late 60s. Yes! I had been looking for an excuse to read some Leonard, and the Raylan books sounded particularly interesting to me because I have been on and off watching Justified on my Amazon Prime account. I knew I liked the character […]
“Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.”
When I reviewed Anna and the French Kiss I mentioned that while I would consider that book New Adult, I still had a tough time being invested in the romantic life of high school seniors. College, fine, that works for me. So when I reviewed the Contemporary/New Adult The Year We Fell Down I had no trouble with the age of the characters or believing their life in college. Which is what I kept thinking about when I settled on a rating of three stars […]
A Tour I Wasn’t Very Interested In.
::sigh:: I’m pretty sure the problem was me, and the fact that in the many years since this book was published I have watched many a show featuring Bourdain do exactly the kind of thing he originated in this work. In fact, one of the running asides in this book is his experiences with the camera crew that followed him as part of the series of the same name on The Food Network. Here’s Goodreads’ rundown of what to expect with this one: “The only […]
“It’s hard being weird. No—it’s hard living in a culture that makes it hard.”
On the surface, I am not the target audience for Felicia Day’s memoir You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost). I am a) not a gamer, not even a little, b) have never watched anything on her Geek & Sundry YouTube channel, or really very much on YouTube at all, c) have never watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer, d) I have only ever watched the first half of the first season of Supernatural, e) while aware of the Vaginal Fantasy book club on Goodreads I […]
An unique view on an already traveled path.
On the cover of the copy of this book I read the quote says “Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow.” Normally this would give me pause. While I’ve not read Ender’s Game, I know it and to a possibly lesser extent, The Hunger Games are tall measuring sticks. I have relegated lesser reviewed books to the proverbial dustbin for attempting these heights and not succeeding. How would this character stack up? And do I want him to? Does it really matter? I had also broken my […]
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