Everything is minimal in The Wall in the Middle of the Book but that works for the story. Jon Agee’s text is minimal. The illustrations have minimal detail to them. However, the details that are there are quite amusing and especially telling if you just pay attention. The story is very simple: A knight thinks that his side of the wall that divides this book is the best side ever! There are no dangers there! After all the other side has lions and rhinos […]
Don’t Eat Me, Chupacabra!!!! I’m not a good snack
Don’t Eat Me, Chupacabra is one of those neat books where you might not like it but someone else will. It is funny but maybe over the top for some. The beginning reader format does make it a good book for schools. Plus, as an adult, if you want to brush up on some Spanish you can do that as well. However, as I read the readers copy there was no pronunciation guide. I am not sure if there will be in a final edition. […]
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; […]
Yeah, I’d have snubbed it too
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 […]
This book is a book I have read, yup
I don’t know much about Craig Ferguson, but I know he is is something of a favourite with my people, and his novel was centre square in CBR10 Bingo , so here we are. This book is billed as “Bawdy, joyous, messy, hysterically funny, and guaranteed to offend regardless of religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, or profession…” on Amazon.ca. Maybe I am just not in the mood for books that are guaranteed to offend. Maybe I am not inclined to find a book with […]
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