Practical Demonkeeping was Christopher Moore’s debut novel, and I’ve had my copy for approximately 20 years. I have a vivid memory of picking it out at this awesome discount bookstore by our house and convincing my mother to let me buy it. I was maybe 11. It was way too adult for me. But I loved it at the time, and have reread it several times since. I just found out that Moore wrote TWO sequels to it (!!) and when I recently found one at Half […]
‘Falling in love is a desolating experience, but not when it is with a countryside.’
When Helen Macdonald lost her father unexpectedly, a man whom she loved and admired very much, she went a little crazy. She’d always been obsessed with falconry, and so she decided (rather spur-of-the-moment) to get a goshawk and train it. A lot of her inspiration came from T. H. White’s The Goshawk, a book that she read as a child — and hated because she felt that White didn’t know what he was doing. “When you are broken, you run. But you don’t always run away. […]
“Kate, stop being crazy!” There they were again, the most patronizing words on the planet.”
Mother, Can You Not? is a memoir by the woman who released those text messages that went viral, in which her overbearing mother continually gives out her daughter’s phone number to every man in sight in order to fix her up. I’ve never had much luck with these blogs turned into books because they often seem to rehash the same material. I figured this would be another one of those S*** My Dad Says collections. But it’s very highly rated on Goodreads and free through my […]
“My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.”
I feel like I should have liked this book so much more than I did. The writing was good, the subject was interesting and the animals were fantastic. But about halfway through I started to feel like I had read the whole book and it was starting all over again. It’s amazing how stories of various exotic animals in Greece can get repetitive after a while but for some reason they did. Gerry’s family decided to move to Greece (to escape the cold and wet […]
“I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.”
I can’t believe I’ve never read Bill Bryson before, especially considering how much I love other humorists his age, like Dave Barry. Bryson has a very similar style of writing, very funny and a hyperbolic way. But I’m definitely a fan now. “It wasn’t that my mother and father were indifferent to their children’s physical well-being by any means. It was just that they seemed to believe that everything would be fine in the end and they were always right.” The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt […]
If you only read one book about Bill Murray this year…I wouldn’t really recommend this one
I borrowed The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray from Caitlin_D because who doesn’t love Bill Murray? Unfortunately, I found the book a little lacking. It’s the second book about this man that I’ve read the last few months, and the other one was definitely better. Although I don’t normally have a problem with narratives skipping around, I second Caitlin’s opinion that the author’s choice to alphabetize Bill’s movies instead of presenting them chronologically (which does makes sense, as this is supposed to be encyclopedia), makes it […]
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