It is SPRING! And Albert cannot wait to find his favorite tree and enjoy the always so quiet and peaceful branches. As well as taking another nap in those same said branches. However, while trying to relax, all of a sudden, the tree starts crying. It has never done that before. What could be casing it? Albert sees that nothing has changed (it even tastes the same when he’s upside down). When Albert and some of his forest friends try different tricks that work for […]
Episode 1-15: Clowns to the Left of Me, Vampire-Killing Lincoln to My Right
https://killingmykindle.com/2018/04/16/episode-1-15-clowns-to-the-left-of-me-vampire-killing-lincoln-to-my-right/ Wherein I review: 49. The Last American Vampire by Seth-Grahame Smith 50. The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa 51. ClownFellas: Tales of the Bozo Family by Carlton Mellick III 52. Shoot First by Stuart Woods FIRST CANNONBALL DONE. For this run Stuart Woods was the Alpha and Omega. SGS goes all Forrest Gump with his vampire Henry Sturges. I get creeped the f out by one the best Japanese authors working today AGAIN. A man I’m convinced is three teen boys in a trenchcoat […]
Five men, two boats, two dogs, and a troublesome cat.
I came across Connie Willis’ novel To Say Nothing of the Dog and it sounded like something I would enjoy, but figured I had best read Jerome K Jerome’s classic Three Men in a Boat first as it is the story that Willis riffs off of for her own. While Three Men in a Boat was amusing, I grew tired of it and had to force myself to slog through to get to the end. I think I would have enjoyed it more when I […]
Fables from the Stables
While putting away new reader copies, I tripped over this title (literally, I dropped it and then stepped on it….) called Hendrix the Rocking Horse. (Hendrix…rock…rocking horse…. get it?) I was a little cautious about it. The goofy illustrations of a horse (is that underwear on its head?) rocking out on stage was enough to give me pause. I then noticed Murray the Race Horse. Still the wonderfully goofy cover, but far more tame and traditional sounding. I wrong. I read Hendrix first, not realizing […]
Not Yet Zebra
Not Yet, Zebra has a bouncy and fun feel to the text and has quirky, cartoonish, yet fairly realistic, illustrations. The little girl in the story has her story all set up to tell. But that pesky Zebra is not following the plan. My take was one should not assume the animals the girl is trying to paint (in alphabetical order) are really “alive”, but I assumed that it is a child pretending her animals are alive and these animals can be mischievous. Especially that […]
Droll and endearing, with a fair amount of casual sex
I always think it’s rather brave when I see a novel or a movie with a title like this. You’d better be pretty confident about your product, knowing that you are risking some smart-ass, less-than-clever critic heading their review “I couldn’t care LESS,” or “I could really use LESS of this book,” yada yada yada. Even if critics like it, they are going to be tempted to say something like “I want more of LESS!” So, points to Andrew Sean Greer for braving that potential […]
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