This book came highly recommended by a psychologist friend of mine. While it is fiction, it gives a very realistic look into the lives of a family affected by autism. Told in the first person, you get an intimate view of how autism feels. Livvie Owen is 14, and she has two sisters, one older, … [Read more]
I began this book in October, and it seemed a bit of a slog, and I'm not sure why. I love Bryson's signature style of history enlivened with juicy tidbits of whimsy. The people involved are interesting. The stories are compelling. The year, 1927, was the year my mother was born, adding an extra … [Read more]
Decades before The Wire's second season premiere made viewers yell, "Who are these people? Why are we at the port? Where is McNulty?" Ursula K. Le Guin begins her sequel to A Wizard of Earthsea by introducing us to Tenar of Atuan. Who? Where? It's a powerful sense of dislocation. We're in the Kargad … [Read more]
“There is very little peace for a man with a body buried in his backyard.” A year after killing a man and burying him in his backyard, Jason Getty is just starting to come to terms with his actions and to get a handle on the guilt. As he begins to think that the body in the backyard will just be … [Read more]
Starting a trend of music related read for my Cannonball Read, the second book I have read is White Line Fever: The Autobiography by Lemmy Kilmister with Janiss Garza. In case you did not know, Lemmy Kilmister is the leader of the band Motörhead, a primary example of the New Wave of British Heavy … [Read more]
Geronimo Stilton is a mouse who is an author, but his cousin Trap is a junk salesman, and his sister Thea helps him work at the Rodent's Gazette, a newspaper for mice. In this book, it is his fourth adventure in the Kingdom of Fantasy. The last dragon egg is stolen and they are only created every … [Read more]
