I’ve been reading and rereading Lawrence Block’s Bernie Rhodenbarr series for years (like, probably close to 20 years — they were on the shelf above Lillian Jackson Braun’s books at my library and I picked them up at some point in middle school when I’d exhausted The Cat Who…) but I’ve never really read anything else by him — although he’s published quite a bit. I saw his name on this story collection, along with some other favorites (Stephen King, Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, and Craig Ferguson, […]
“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.”
I had a very bad day on Thursday. But I had the day off from work, and some time to collect myself, so I decided to run a bath at 11 o’clock in the morning. I needed reading material — because I can’t take a bath without it — but I had finished my previous book and hadn’t yet started a new one. Between my crappy mood, and the fact that I didn’t want to get out of the tub to get a different book, I […]
Everything I wanted (but didn’t get) from the Gilmore Girls revival
I am and always will be a huge fan of Gilmore Girls. I started watching the show when it premiered and as a nerdy brunette who loves to read, who was also the same age as Rory Gilmore, I identified with her strongly — despite the fact that my mother is a good thirty years older than I am. I love and cherish the show and still re-watch it every six months or so. The last couple of seasons aren’t so great, but they’re forgivable […]
You can almost taste it…
I am currently halfway through one Stephen King audiobook, most of the way through Lauren Graham’s audiobook, have recently restarted Neverwhere (I was in the mood for comfort food) and also listened to an hour of Outlander (my project for 2017 — listen to all the Outlander novels on audio) at the nail salon today. All of this to say: this will be my last review of 2016, as I’m nowhere near completion on anything else! “I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and […]
The Not So Amazing Adventures of Zelikman & Amram
I just left a comment on another CBR raving about Michael Chabon. And it’s true — I love the man’s writing. But this book was just really not very good. I started out liking it, because the language is enchanting. But I realized quickly that it was a lot of fancy words describing something I just could not enjoy. ““[A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result – and have been since at least […]
It doesn’t get much more epic than this
So. The Stand. I have been listening to The Stand on audiobook since before Thanksgiving. It’s 48 hours long. I’m so glad that I was able to to hit my 5th Cannonball of the year on this particular book because I love it dearly, but have never had a chance to review it for Cannonball. So here we go! “Show me a man or a woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll […]
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