I kind of hated reading this . I understand its goals and it had some interesting and touching moments, but was overall a slog to get through. One of many stories of childhood in the 1950s, I don’t think it offered any new point of view on the era. It does have an interesting look into grief and children, specifically losing a parent, but doesn’t dive as deeply into the topic as I wish it would have. The Mutual Admiration Society is made up of young Theresa “Tess” […]
My Big Fat Fabulous Life
This was definitely not the light and funny comedy memoir I was expecting, but I urge you to read it anyway. Even if you have no idea who Whitney Thorpe is (like me) or refuse to watch reality TV on TLC (like me), you will probably get something out of it. The book basically covers two main concepts: the times that Whitney struggled with her weight, and how she’s learned to accept to love herself. Her problems with her self perception of her weight began when […]
And all that jazz…
Moon Over Soho is the second outing for PC Peter Grant and remains as fun the first, retaining the same sense of humour while adding a spot of world-building and introducing of a potential Big Bad for the series. Peter and his friends are still recovering from the aftermath of the events of Rivers of London – Nightingale is recuperating well but Lesley is hiding herself from the world and placing all of her hopes on magic to restore her to her previous self. But London’s supernatural citizens aren’t […]
Douglas Adams, Terry Gilliam, and Martin Freeman walk into a bar….
I have long wanted to read this, but the sheer number of volumes in the series was intimidating. I started it last year (or the year before) but was put off by the incessant silliness of it all. Which isn’t to say I don’t appreciate silliness, but I do have to be in the mood for it. And to that point, Terry Pratchett’s voice is unmistakable, here. It is equal parts Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Terry Gilliam, with a splash of bumbling charm that Martin […]
“They claim they did all this because they love me, but I must say, I’ve never been loved in such a bizarre fashion.”
I borrowed George Takei’s Oh Myyy! from Caitlin_D and honestly, you can probably just read her assessment of it since I agree wholeheartedly. It’s a collection of memes amid Takei’s take on the internet. Despite the fact that he mentions several times that his Facebook page aims itself (successfully!) towards the demographics of men and women in their twenties and thirties, this book sounds like it was written for people of his own generation who don’t understand how the internet works. It’s funny — he’s a […]
Well that was disappointing
So I’ve mentioned before that Practical Demonkeeping is one of my favorite Christopher Moore books. I reread it recently because I found a copy of the sequel at Half Price Books and wanted to refresh my memory of the first book before reading the second. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove is that sequel and it was honestly pretty terrible. It doesn’t feature hardly any of the characters from the first book, although it does have the same setting. I’m not really sure why he bothered to […]
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