Now that was fun. Seriously, deliriously fun. Stark, Just Stark, is back from hell, still a little bit on fire when he lands on a trash heap in LA. Coming back from hell is a bitch, but he’s nothing if not resourceful. As he makes his way through the city, acclimating himself to being topside, he thinks about one thing only: killing the bastards that took the life of his one and only love, Alice. See, Stark isn’t back from the dead. He was sent […]
Cabbages is beautiful
This novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1924 and is as far from all the European mysteries I have been reading as it could be. So Big is the nickname given Dirk DeJeong when he was a baby. “How big is baby?” “S-o-o-o-o-o Big”. If the book had just been about him, I would have quietly closed the cover and left the book to molder. Thankfully a fair amount of it is about his mother, Selina Peake, the daughter of a gambler and […]
C’est un moment aigre-doux pour moi
Fini! Well, for this year. I understand Ms. Black is pretty reliable and produces a book roughly every 12 months, but what I mean is that I set out to read all the books in the Aimee Leduc Investigations series as part of my Cannonball Read. Mission accomplished. What did I learn? Perhaps barreling through an entire series of any length, binge-watching-media-content-style isn’t the best idea. When the stories and writing are engaging and insightful and fun it’s a breeze. When the quality falls off […]
Bon apetit!
What a delightful little book! I’ve been needing to brush up on my culinary skills and I came across this gem. Claudine Pepin is the daughter of Jaques Pepin. Not only did she grow up in the kitchens he headed, like Lutece, she also does cooking shows with her father and has been the brand ambassador for Moet and Chandon and Dom Perignon champagne. This book, while geared at children is still quite useful to adult cooks wanting to learn some basics of French cuisine. […]
Yeah, not that complicated
I want to say that this book was meh but the more I think about it, the more annoyed I become with Nomi and her pointlessly meandering and maddeningly adolescent story. To be fair, if I never read another coming-of-age story in my life I will die happy. You know, so many books, so little time. Life’s too short to read bad books. Yadda, yadda, yadda. I’ve read a few other books by Ms Toews, a Canadian writer, most notably her newest, All My Puny […]
Over and over, we begin again
Well this little book took me by surprise and happily so. I’m sure that says something terrible about me that I had no idea this book existed, but it’s all good. I know now and the delicately drawn characters will walk beside me for a long time to come. It is interesting that the last two books I have read explore death. I really didn’t plan it that way. In Kitchen, Mikagi has just lost her grandmother, who was her primary caregiver after her parents […]
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