I tagged this as both “fiction” and “biography/memoir”, because Alice Walker explains that many of the stories are loosely based on her own life. I don’t know enough about her to fully separate fact and fiction (although a little Googling gave me some clues), but either way it’s a wonderful collection of stories. “We’ve never seen weather like the weather there is today. We’ve never seen violence like the violence we see today. We’ve never seen greed or evil like the greed and evil we see today. […]
A sitcom “full of minute observations and despicable characters”
I’ve mentioned before that I love reading histories of movies or shows — Clueless, The Princess Bride — and now I can add Seinfeldia to that list. I wouldn’t bother with this one if you don’t like the show, but if you do — this was a great read. “By 2013, Seinfeld would become the most successful show ever in syndication. Networks buy reruns in packages sold in “cycles,” and Seinfeld was the first show in history to get to a fifth cycle, taking its rerun sales through 2017—nearly twenty […]
I don’t care how inbred he was, I’m not going to feel bad for this guy
I don’t know why I bothered to read this. It was attached to my copy of What The Night Knows, as novella prequel to What The Night Knows but meant to be read afterwards. I didn’t like What The Night Knows. I wasn’t going to like a prequel about its horrifying murdering ghost guy, pre-death. But I’m also unable to NOT complete what I’ve started, so I read the damn thing anyway. So, Darkness Under the Sun tells us about Alton Blackwood’s life before he murders a bunch […]
“It’s hard out there for a fuzzy little introvert.”
I’m a fan of Amy Schumer, mostly based off the first season of her show and her real-life antics. She seems like she’d be a lot of fun, and she’s not afraid to share her opinions, which I love. I’m surprised by how much I liked this book, though. I thought it would be mostly dick jokes, and while they do appear in abundance, I found the more serious chapters to be much more effective than when she’s aiming for comedy. “I know my worth. I embrace […]
Dean Koontz, I just can’t quit you
This was not a great book. It wasn’t even very good. But it’s Dean Koontz, and you could definitely do worse for a few hours of reading. “He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared eternal life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.” Detective John Calvino’s entire family was murdered (along with several others) when he was a child. He ended the serial […]
“The madness inside will haunt you forever…”
This book wasn’t *bad*, necessarily, but definitely did not live up to my expectations based on the pretty awesome title and cover. “I understood why Aunt Cordelia had dragged herself out to the road before committing suicide. Why she hadn’t let herself die on the property. Because then she would have been stuck forever. Like me.” Sixteen year old Delia has inherited her great-aunt’s property — a rundown mansion also known as Hysteria Hall, since it used to be a sanitarium for “troubled” girls. Unfortunately, the […]
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