This is my first bingo square attempt, for having been shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. And boy oh boy am I not surprised this didn’t get it. I liked Then We Came To The End well enough; The Unnamed slightly less so. But MAN did I not care for this book. The plot revolves around our dentist protagonist and his attempt to track down the identity thief posting cultish religious (or anti-religious? The book insists it’s sort of both but reading this thing through […]
Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again
So I bought a house. Moved my mother in with us in her own apartment. Sold her place. Renovated our old one to ready it for rental. Got half new staff at work. Raising the tiny one. It’s been a bit since I’ve posted, but life has been hectic. Nothing like a nice relaxing read to soothe my jangled nerves, so of course I pick The Handmaid’s Tale to read (and make my coworker book club cohorts read for our first selection.) I’m a masochist. […]
Fractal and fractured
The work this book most reminded me of wasn’t actually a book; despite having no similarities in characters or plot, the FEELING it left me with was exactly like the movie It Follows. I was done reading this and had the same queasy wrongness that I did after watching the dissonant film about a sexually transmitted haunting. Sweet Lamb of Heaven follows a woman who begins having auditory hallucinations at the birth of her daughter and the group of fellow sufferers in the hotel where […]
Everyone wants to be Malcolm Gladwell
I feel like ever since The Tipping Point, everyone and their dog has tried to write some version or expansion of that book, including Malcolm Gladwell himself. I’ve even loved some of those books, particularly Chip and Dan Heath’s Made to Stick, which is similar to (and referenced by) Contagious, but suffers by comparison. It’s interesting to explore what makes ideas worth spreading, why certain concepts “stick” with us instead of flashing in the pan, but this book doesn’t stick with any of its examples […]
The power of Margaret Atwood compels you!
I liked this a lot, even if the central message can be boiled down to “power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely,” and that’s as provocative a statement as “water is wet.” A frame tale where academics use historical documents to reconstruct a past much like our present as gender imbalance creates a crisis point and reveal their own biases in the interpretation is gonna get compared to Margaret Atwood for obvious reasons. To say this is not The Handmaid’s Tale is no slight to Alderman; […]
Alton Brown best watch the throne
So I know that per cannonball rules graphic novels are countable toward the goal, but I’m not counting mine as it feels like a cheat to me; I love comics hard, but I’d make cannonball in a week if I counted em. I was a longtime lurker and was an observer for CB1 even if I only joined at CB9, and remember thinking “well duh” when they were excluded from the inaugural readathon. As I had a half decade vacation from the mothership, I’m not […]
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