If you live under a rock, Orange is the New Black is the memoir of a Smith College grad who spent her post-college days experimenting with lesbianism and drug trafficking. Okay, to be fair, she might have been more grounded in the former than the latter, but it’s not really clear from the book. Watch the Netfiix series, though, and you’ll get waaaaaaay more lesbionic love scenes than the source material proffers. But that’s not to say you should skip the book! OITNB (get with […]
You’ll never take your sanity for granted again
Many thanks to Rachel. S., whose review inspired me to read this book. I saw a neurologist once. I was feeling increasingly confused, forgetful, and mentally disheveled. I would find myself driving on the freeway and suddenly not know where I was or where I was going. I would walk into a co-worker’s office only to forget why I was there. I’d read a book or watch a movie and not remember what it was about. The neurologist gave me a handful of tests, during […]
A Book to Truly Envy
This book was a CBR recommendation from Alannaofdoom and I wasn’t disappointed. In fact, I’m calling it now as one of my top five books for the year. Nothing to Envy is based on the lives of North Korean defectors, whom Demick reported on extensively during her time working as the Los Angeles Times Bureau chief in Korea. Her book focuses on six individuals, all from Chongjin. It is beautifully written, at times reading like a fictional novel rather than a journalistic work of non-fiction. […]
So continues my quest for the perfect vampire novel…
Hmmm….everything about this book makes me want to like it. The premise, the satire, the author, and a lot of reviews I skimmed on Goodreads. But I just can’t bring myself to the level of enthusiasm of these other reviewers. Dark Moonlighting is the first of a four novel series. It’s about Nick, a 600 year old vampire doctor-lawyer-police officer (needing only 2 hours of sleep a night, Nick has plenty of time to work) . No, Nick isn’t sexy, he doesn’t glow in the […]
A Well Spun Yarn
Wool is one of those futuristic, dystopian, post-apocolytpic, insert your own buzzword here, type books that I’m sure is packaged as a three-book series…(checking internets)…yep, it’s called the Silo Series and also includes the novels Shift and Dust. Despite my sarcasm, this was a book I couldn’t set down many times. The novel started as a short story that was released by Amazon for the Kindle in 2011. Due to its popularity, Howey continued writing and amassed a three book collection in two years. Basically […]
A Good Book You’ll Want to Borrow
My motivation for reading this book was to get it off my shelf and back on my neighbor’s, who had lent it to me months before. Coupled with the fact that she also brought me a plate of pure sex for Christmas (no one makes better cookies than her), I was beginning to feel like a really lousy neighbor. “But my dog ocassionally tears into your yard, screaming for Kiki the Poodle to come out” I want to scream (let’s ignore the fact that he […]