This is a book that has lurked on the edges of my “I should add this to my TBR pile” mental list but somehow never made it on. I saw the trailer for the upcoming film version of it and knew it was something that my kid and I would both like, so I took the plunge. In terms of world building, it’s a unique one in the vast landscape of dystopian, steampunk, young adult fare. Hundreds of years in the future, we have somehow ruined […]
All couples start off as Romeo and Juliet and end up as Laurel and Hardy.
This book was selected by my book club. I’m not sure that it would have been one that I picked up on my own, but I enjoyed it. It’s an interesting exploration of how we connect and disconnect with the world around us and how relationships evolve over the years. After their short marriage ended 30 years ago, David and Julie reconnect. Now both in their mid 50’s and experiencing a break up and a divorce respectively, they come together at Julie’s hodge podge old […]
.. the good Lord went to ridiculous lengths to make sure that one of the finest minds in existence was housed in a body least likely to be suspected of it.
This wasn’t on my radar at all until CBR folks started reviewing The Lady Sherlock Series. Thanks! I have zero knowledge of the Sherlock Holmes novels aside from how they are interpreted or reinvented by television and film. At some point, I probably should add that to my ever-growing pile of BOOKS I SHOULD READ. For now, I can’t in any way make comparisons in this review but I have the sense that this book stands on its own merit anyway. Charlotte Holmes is not […]
If you invented modern fame from scratch, now, and told people what it would consist of, they would think you were crackers.
This follow-up to “How to Build a Girl” is a funny, frank and tender look at a young woman coming into her own. Having “built the girl”, Johanna is now living alone in London, at 18, and writing for a popular rock and roll magazine. Traveling Europe to interview musicians and review gigs, she’s living the life she had dreamed of. But, trying to be true to herself is difficult as she tries to fit in both in the workplace and the London social scene. Desperate […]
Trees did not talk back, or willfully disobey, or laugh at him. They were not here to torment him; indeed, they were not here for him at all.
I enjoy reading fiction that has to do in some way with horticulture or nature. Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior and Prodigal Summer are two of my favorites. The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall and The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin are also both really good. I’m not sure what you would call this genre, but I am always on the look out for this kind of book (Hint hint: any recommendations?) This led me to Chevalier’s “At the Edge of the Orchard”. This is going to be a love/hate review. Part of the story […]
This is why your children were returned to you shoeless, jacketless, covered in mud, and full of fantastic stories.
Many of you fellow Cannonballers read this one and you folks are not ambivalent about it. It appears to be a like it or leave it situation. I gotta say, I thought it was tremendous. This is a modern tale that pokes fun at Seattle, Microsoft, progressive schools, helicopter parents and impersonal technology that allows us to outsource our lives. Elgin, Bernadette and Bee live in an upscale Seattle neighborhood. Elgin’s job at Microsoft affords them an affluent lifestyle but they live in a dilapidated former […]
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