If Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem were here, he’d know exactly what to do. It doesn’t matter that you can’t shoot cancer, because he’d probably find a way. Maybe there’s a spectacular shrinking device that could put Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem (along with Specialist Manny Loco, Private Jasper Jacks and the rest) into the blood stream of someone afflicted with cancer so that a rain of heavy weapons fire would lay decimation to the root of the problem. Maybe there’s another type of bullet, a medicine bullet that […]
See June Run
There was no question that I would be quickly moving on to the second book of my latest young adult, dystopian trilogy–Prodigy (2013) by Marie Lu. I need to read all three before our book club meeting, and the first one was more interesting than I expected. I wasn’t disappointed in this second book, either. Now, it’s always somewhat challenging to review the second book in a trilogy. You can’t say much of anything about the plot without revealing spoilers from the first book, and […]
As a dating strategy, not recommended
Somewhere, someone linked to a list of books that were being made into movies this year. On that list was Labor Day (2009) by Joyce Maynard. I didn’t know much about it, but I like Josh Brolin and Kate Winslet enough to want to watch it. And If I’m going to watch the movie, I always prefer to read the book first. Continued…
Not as much fun as Real Vampires
I read this book a year or two ago, but I completely forgot that I had, picked it up from the library for some light entertainment, and got about three-quarters of the way through before I realised that the gory crimes and girly characters and burgeoning love triangles seemed strangely familiar. So…it’s basically unmemorable–generic in all senses of the word; indeed, it attempts to play with how closely it follows the procedures and developments of detective novels by being set among a group of avid […]
Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” – Oscar Wilde (opening quote in The Night Circus) I’m on something of a streak of reading books that everyone else discovered years ago, and then being surprised when they’re great. The word “delightful” is overused – I heard that on NPR I think – but it describes this book perfectly. The Night Circus is pure delight. I don’t […]
that book everyone has read and reviewed
I read the Fault in Our Stars in an afternoon, not because its a short book (though it’s not long by any means) but because it isn’t an easy book to put down. At this point I don’t think there is anyone out there unaware of the plot- Hazel is a smart, cancer ridden 16-year-old who meets Gus, a gorgeous, charismatic boy who is in remission, at a support group. This has probably been my favorite book I’ve read all year, which admittedly was a […]
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