I assume, at this point, that just about everyone on the Internets has seen at least one episode of My Drunk Kitchen, starring the lovely Hannah Hart. If you have not, may I suggest this banana bread episode, also starring Grace Helbig? (“We’ll find out!”) But, let’s just assume that you’ve seen an episode or two, or that -if you haven’t – my explanation that MDK is basically about a rambly, philosophizing, goofily drunk host who hangs out with her friends, LOVES TO USE PUNS, […]
“If I were in charge of the world, you wouldn’t have lonely.”
In order to pass on my love of poetry to my niblings (and expand our horizons a tad bit beyond Where The Sidewalk Ends), my niece and I have recently spent some time exploring the 810s at our local library. One of our very first finds – and one of the biggest hits – is Judith Viorst’s If I Were in Charge of The World (and other worries). For my niece and I, the best kind of poetry is nonsense poetry – we’ve spent a […]
Science fiction young adult Jane Austen. It’s good, I promise
Laziness makes me resort to the Goodreads synopsis once again: It’s been several generations since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity and giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology. Elliot North has always known her place in the world. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family’s estate over love. Since then the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists are jumpstarting the wheel of […]
A charming and surprisingly haunting graphic novel about mistakes, friendship, spirits and cookery from the author of Scott Pilgrim.
Katie is the head chef behind Seconds, the best restaurant in town, but she’s already looking towards new pastures and new challenges. All of her friends have moved away, and she’d like to run her own restaurant, rather than work in somebody else’s kitchen. She’s found the perfect place across the river, but the building work is taking far too long and seems to be tied up in a bureaucratic limbo. She also has the ghost of her previous relationship hanging over her head in […]
Mmm… books about books
At the risk of becoming too meta, I’m going to talk a little bit about one of my go-to books for choosing other books to read.* I tend to think – judging by the Cannonballers I actually know, the general bookish-ness around here, and the sheer amount of things that Must. Be. Read – that a lot of you CBReaders are similar to me, in that you tend to read quite a bit. (And write rather less often than you should/would like too, but that’s […]
A Bit of a Disappointment (or don’t read this right after Eleanor & Park)
(Read 5/26/14) I’m a big fan of Oliver’s other books and her writing, but this novel felt like the least thought out of her work—like an early novel versus the most recent. I’m sure parallels to the Hunger Games will be drawn here though the setting is current (not future) and the stakes not quite as high. The basic plot of the book is this. Carp, New York is a small town in upstate New York, the type of place the economy has hit hard and […]
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