This is one of those books that reveals something about 100 pages in that makes you want to flip back to the beginning in order to reread everything with that new information in mind. Which makes it a great read, but extremely hard to review without spoiling that fun for someone else. So bear with me! I picked up Magic (and Marathon Man, which I’ll be reviewing later this week) after listening to As You Wish, in which Cary Elwes mentions William Goldman’s other works. I’ve only ever read The Princess […]
A bit too much mommy-bashing for me
So I’ve read two other books by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor. One was written prior to her starting a family — it’s all stories about boys and drunken nights and celebrity encounters. It’s cute, but nothing special (I reviewed it at one point this year on CBR). Then I read another of her books, written after she came to terms with her drinking problem, which struck in earnest while she struggled with three kids, two of whom were preemie twins. That one was pretty good –frankly written and funny. Sippy […]
A Different Kind of Memoir
I was kind of expecting to like this more than I did. My familiarity with Lena Dunham is completely based on her presence on social media — I’ve never watched Girls or any of her movies. But I like her — she’s smart, she’s bold, she’s trying to change things. But I just didn’t feel much for this book. “There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman.” One thing […]
I need recommendations for more by John Scalzi!
While I was initially confused about the genre of this book — I went into thinking it was horror because I confused John Scalzi with Jon Lindqvist (in my defense the cover of Let the Right One In looks a LOT like Lock In’s — and they’re both named John/Jon) — once I realized it was sci-fi, not horror, I really enjoyed it. In fact, I feel like I need to read some more of this guy’s work because I rarely read sci-fi anymore, despite the fact that I […]
Really only about 10% of this has to do with the damn painting
Wow, this book was long. And it took a long time to read — even long books don’t usually take me more than a few evenings and I feel like I spent two damn weeks with this one. And while I enjoyed it most of it, I feel like it 1. Could have been a hell of a lot shorter without affecting things too much and 2. Was not really what I expected (much more teenage angst, much less art-related heists). “You can look at […]
Redeems itself by the end (much like Hook himself)
Lisa Jensen’s Alias Hook take a loooong time to get going — she’s quite the fan of flowery writing, and it began to make me crazy after a bit. I had less interest in Hook’s past than his present and future. But once Stella Parrish arrives, things go from barely tolerable to quite interesting and I flew through the last 1/4 of the book, eager to see the ending. “He has youth and innocence on his side, and the heartlessness that comes with them. I have only […]
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