The Cross – 5/5 I started this year off on January 2 pretty much reading the first two of this trilogy in one day. Now, some 440 books and reviews later I close off my reading in one day. This collection is 1100 pages long and is so rewarding. Not that many women have won the Nobel Prize and a lot of Nobel Prize winners in the early years are so boring or weird or garbage, and so a combination of an early female winner […]
Cosmere Collection
Arcanum Unbounded – 5/5 Stars So I am a big Brandon Sanderson fan. I think he’s goofy and a weird and lives in a world in violence is normal, sex is gross, and the word maladroit is normal. But so it goes. So I haven’t read Elantris or Warbreaker as I set off into this world and though I will soon, I was willing to read anything not directly spoilery about those worlds. Highlights for me: The Emperor’s Soul – This novella is really good. […]
Sometimes I need reading homework
4/5 Stars So the idea I had for myself, to give myself some reading structure is based on finding a review for this history and adding some fiction to supplement it. I love the Gilded Age, and I think it’s incredibly weird and interesting of a time period. We know a lot about the world and culture of the Gilded Age because it’s the same world that inhabits all the Wild West novels and movies, it’s the world post-Civil War, and it’s the cultural ethos […]
More random weird books
Ok so I don’t know if I know what this one is about. I mean I DO but I don’t. This book starts with alternating narrators: one is a giantess in the English Civil War ala ie Cromwell, and another is her adopted ward who is a kind of cross-dressing time-traveler. Ok, so I got 60 words so far. And that’s kind of the whole book? I mean there’s definitely some adventures and mishaps and a lot of craziness. It reads like a a Terry […]
GUISE DID YOU KNWO THAT ROBERT LANGDON IS TALL AND HANDSOME??!1!
I can not ever give a Dan Brown book more than a three for a handful of reasons. One, his books are completely absurd. Two, his writing is barely adequate to the task and kind of hilariously out of sync for the tone of his books, which are somber and pretentious. Three, he cannot let you forget anything in the book that barely resembles characterization. So while the art criticism or whatever counts for it in the first three books gets by me as fine […]
What do you do when books have the exact same plot?
So three books came out this year that deal with trans-racial adoption…and somehow they all have the exact same plot. And two have the exact same ending. So that’s annoying. This book is good, mostly. It’s hard to deal with a topical topic and and then have that topic explored in almost exactly the same terms as other books. This book is well-written and the main plotline is interesting and well-handled. In a lot of ways it reminds me of Ann Patchett, domestic-ish, dealing with […]
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