First off, this book is beautiful. Each chapter deals with the history of varying hues within a color family, and each page is bordered by that color. This is helpful not only for context and avoids bogging the reader down with descriptions of exactly where magenta falls on a scale of fuchsia to pink, but also just LOOKS really cool. From a purely aesthetic standpoint, the book looks great. The premise was enough to hook me easily as well; the histories of specific shades of […]
But what if the pony’s trick is really cool?
I’ll pretty much read whatever Chuck Klosterman puts out. I know what I’m getting, it’s pop culture cake with highbrow frosting, but dammit, who doesn’t like cake? It’s also not as easy to pull off as even Klosterman himself joked in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by giving the formula for writing his pieces. Many seemed to take that as a recipe rather than a joke; I’m thinking particularly of cannonball nine book club selection Life Goes Pretty Fast, you can’t just overthink pop culture […]
I want to read this again and again.
“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.” Ugh, dammit. That’s such a good line. Why can’t I write like that? Why can’t everyone write like that? It’s appropriate to the age of the character but still profound. This was a Christmas gift and I devoured it as quickly as I could, which isn’t as fast as it used to be thanks to the baby. I requested […]
So close to that cannonball …
I might be a bit salty about having missed my CBR9 cannonball, I was REALLY close, you guys. This book was one of my close calls, and while very enjoyable was just a bit too dense for me to plow through it the way I wanted to. I bought this on a “well, it’s cheap” whim, unfamiliar with or Sheldon, and on further reading I realized that the only story of hers (his? Theirs?) I was familiar with was written by another pseudonym of Alice’s […]
Unhappy families might all be unhappy in a unique way, but I think books about unhappy families are starting to all read the same.
This wasn’t a bad book, per se, I just REALLY felt like I’d read it before, so much so that when I learned from the jacket that it was being made into a movie my kneejerk reaction was “but why? I’ve seen this plot a hundred and eleventy twelve times.” Patriarch of a fractured and imperfect family dies, and the grieving process helps the family come to realize truths about each other and heal old wounds. That’s right up there with the hero’s journey and […]
Delightful if unsurprising
This stirring coming of age tale of a young Austrian countess and the baron who steals her heart … just kidding, you totally know what you’re getting into with a Nick Offerman book, and this doesn’t disappoint. Basically he’s a less gruff, more artistic version of Rom Swanson, and it’s utterly refreshing how little Offerman cares for the stereotypical trappings of manhood his fans seem to think he epitomizes. Like he himself points out, he’s an actor, an artist by trade; it’s not like the […]
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