Although I was a huge fan of the books as a kid, I don’t think I’ve ever watched an episode of the TV show Little House on the Prairie. However, I saw Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated and the titled intrigued me, so I snagged it. It turned out to be a really good read — dark and funny. Alison Arngrim definitely has the whole, “heal thyself through laughter” thing down. And the girl has a lot to […]
This just…wasn’t very good
I was pretty psyched to read Liane Moriarty’s new novel, The Hypnotist’s Love Story, because I loved the last two books I read by her (Big Little Lies and What Alice Forgot). Both had twisty plot lines full of mysteries and last minute reveals. I could not put either one of them down because I felt so desperate to find out how they ended! In contrast, if The Hypnotist’s Love Story hadn’t been a Moriarty book, I would have dropped it about 100 pages in. My belief in her […]
Not quite magical enough
Sarah Addison Allen’s Lost Lake doesn’t quite contain the magical wonder that so defines her other books for me. It’s a perfectly serviceable romance, but despite the presence of a talking alligator and a teenage ghost, didn’t quite do it for me. “Eby wanted to say so much to her. She wanted to say that waking up is the most important part of grieving, that so many women in their family failed to do it, and she was proud of Kate for fighting her way back. But Eby […]
No wonder they changed it up for a sitcom
I had never read Eddie Huang’s Fresh Off the Boat, nor had I watched the show, but I’d heard that Huang had reacted very poorly to the adaptation of his memoir for TV. Apparently they cleaned it up a lot for TV, and after reading it, I can totally see why. Huang’s experience growing up in Orlando was pretty rough — he was beat up at school and at home, he lashed out by drinking, doing drugs and stealing, his language is atrocious, etc. Still, beneath that angry, unhappy […]
Don’t Panic
I have read this book so many times. I’ve also listened to the audiobook quite a bit — when I was in middle school, I duped myself a copy from the library, and used to listen to it at night and fall asleep to it. As a result, I have massive amounts of it memorized, although I tend to remember some bits more than others (probably the parts at the beginnings of each tape). I haven’t listened to it or re-read it in a while though, so […]
Another winner from Liane Moriarty
While What Alice Forgot was not quite as compelling as the first book I read by Liane Moriarty — Big Little Lies — but the writing was excellent and Moriarty does a good job of teasing the reader, up until the end, with the mystery of “Gina”, and what caused the falling out between Alice and Nick. “Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It’s light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you’ve hurt each other and […]
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