So I didn’t really like Booky Wook. I didn’t like it because Russell Brand’s stories mostly revolve around being drunk and/or high and they got dull after a while. But when I purchase a copy of the first booked, I purchased a copy of its sequel as well. I am nothing if not obsessive about completing things. So I read Booky Wook Two….and didn’t really like it. I did however discover that a lack of drug and alcohol fueled stories does not improve Brand’s writing. […]
Double Cannonball!
Another excellent recommendation from a Cannonballer. I really enjoyed this book, although I spent most of the time either not understanding what was going on, or trying to figure out what the story was really about. But it’s definitely the kind of book that I would recommend going into without knowing much of the plot. I also would NOT recommend reading it on audiobook. Narfna read it in 24 hours and I wish I had done the same. Letting it drag out over on audiobook […]
“When we look up at a billboard in Times Square featuring a man with a large Adam’s apple, we are essentially being shown a demonstration of testicular aptitude.”
Thank you Lollygagger for recommending this book, because I absolutely loved it. It reminded me a lot of Mary Roach, as well as Unmentionable and the one about the plagues. Basically, I’m loving this genre of informative and entertaining nonfiction. I mean, I love a good Eric Larson book. But lately these more humorous takes on history and medicine have really become a lot of fun for me to read. So the author of If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a […]
Speaking of mindless entertainment!
I probably shouldn’t have liked this as much as I did. The plot was silly, the characters have turned into caricatures, and since it takes place BEFORE the last book that I read in the series, there wasn’t much suspense. But dammit, Jones, I do love you. 8:45 P.M. Realize there have been so many times in my life when have fantasized about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time. Bridget sleeps with Mark & Daniel within the […]
Well, it was worth the quarter I paid for it…maybe
I bought this book at a garage sale for twenty-five cents, then forgot I owned it for 3 years. I rediscovered it last week while looking for something mindless to read, and it definitely fit the bill! Eve and her two sisters have a senile, sex-addicted father and a mother who disappeared years ago. Eve deals mostly with the father, as her older sister’s a high-powered magazine executive, and the younger sister is a flake. The whole book, as you may have guessed, consists of […]
“Because not all monsters were monsters in the beginning. Some are monsters born of sorrow.”
This was pretty good. Not as good as A Man Called Ove, but still pretty good. “People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will “lessen as time passes,” but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyze us. So in the end we just […]
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