This is my “and so it begins” book for CBR bingo, which is slightly improbable as after finishing Redshirts I wasn’t sure I’d read another John Scalzi book again. CBR changed my mind; enough people enjoyed Head On that I picked it up, not having remembered that I had in fact read something by the author before. I enjoyed Head On enough that when I was looking for reading material on an international trip I actively sought out Scalzi. I needed something light, something fun, […]
The Magic’s Gone
This is my bingo square for “Two heads are better than one” as a friend recommended this as a book club selection that we never actually got together to discuss. I was not the only speed bump, there was much Facebook chatter from the group about who was attending and who’d read the book. One party was on the fence about whether to start. John and I had read it. So here’s our exchange: Me: I was… not a fan. I liked a couple stories […]
The gift that keeps on giving
This was my “cannonballer says!” square for bingo and it’s kind of a twofer as maydays’ comment on alwaysanswersb’s review doubled down on my decision to buy the book. And honestly, enough of you guys have recommended this one that I was leaning toward buying this before maydays let me know this was written by Mike Carey (I’m a huge comic book reader but keep my cannonball reviews to prose), but alwaysanswersb really made me interested. I’m spending a lot of words on the review, […]
Our culture might be in jeopardy and I still had to make the damn pun
Bingo entry 4 – my “so shiny” book is appropriately from Ken Jennings, because he’s now in the “I’ll buy a book about ladders if they wrote it” category for me. After having read Because I Said So, Maphead, and my favorite, Brainiac – a book about his Jeopardy experience and the popularity of trivia that includes actual trivia questions. Be still my heart – I’ll read anything he writes, much less something as attuned to my own interests as a book about how humor […]
I Will Sparkle Like a Wealthy Woman’s Neck
CBR bingo entry 3 leads me to my “Birthday” space for Sloane Crosley, who turned 40 August 3rd this year. (And yeah, she was gonna be my “so shiny!” entry but Ken Jennings was born in May and I don’t get that many books hot off the presses because I’m cheap, AND her debut was I Was Told There’d Be Cake, for pete’s sake, so I had to change her to my birthday square. But I still liked how the title works with her tone; […]
Not in my Wheelhouse. Or beach house for that matter
Second bingo entry for “Not in my wheelhouse,” which is a rough category for me as I really will read pretty much anything. The best I could come up with is that I tend not to read books like this – I don’t want to call them women’s books because a) reductive, b) there’s tons of books by/for women that aren’t like this, and c) saying I don’t read books like this and then calling them women’s books smacks of “I’m not like other girls” […]
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