I was so sad when Michael Crichton died. I loved his novels, even the ones that weren’t so great (ahem…Timeline) and of course, he’s responsible for two of my favorite things to ever hit the screen: ER and Twister. So I was delighted to discover that he had a writing career prior to becoming Michael Crichton, under the pen-name John Lange. Unfortunately, the first (and probably only) book I’ve read of the 8 written under the Lange name kind of…sucked. Scratch One begins with a series of assassinations across Europe as a […]
“Truth is, you save me, child. You save me as sure as the sun rises.”
I downloaded this audiobook thinking it would be fairly light material. After all, the main character is a nine year old girl. I was wrong, to say the least. “My daddy says that when you do somethin’ to distract you from your worstest fears, it’s like whistlin’ past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that’s how we get by sometimes. But it’s not weak, like hidin’…it’s strong. It means you’re able to go on.” Set […]
Southern Gothic
I pulled this up on Goodreads in preparation to write my review, I saw that Narfna had said (back in 09): “Four stars for talent, three stars for enjoyment.” That’s pretty much spot on. Beyond A Good Man is Hard to Find, which I liked in high school and liked 12 (gulp) years later upon rereading, most of these short stories are pretty miserable. But that doesn’t detract from how obviously talented O’Connor was, and what a shame it is that she died so very young. “She would’ve […]
Caitlin_D, you’ll like this one
Ah, funny books by funny ladies — they almost never fail me. “This was when I learned one of the biggest secrets of being a woman, which is that much of the time, we don’t feel like we’re women at all.” Jessi Klein is a writer for Inside Amy Schumer, which I watched pretty religiously the first season only to abandon in season two (sorry, Amy, we cancelled our cable). Klein starts this very well-written memoir by talking about how girls can be tomboys when they’re little, only […]
I’ll forgive the rather tortured “leftovers” metaphor, because this was a great read
Poor Fizzy — she does everything she can to get it right, but just can’t seem to make everyone happy. Everyone being her recently divorced parents, their new significant others, the school counselor and her mean math teacher. Her mother moved her across town after the divorce, so she has no friends at her school. In fact, she has no one to talk to at all besides her aunt, who’s helping her try to win the Southern Living cook-off. And even that relationship has had its […]
“Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.”
Peaches for Monsieur le Curé is the third novel in Joanne Harris’s Chocolat series, but you really don’t need to read the first two to understand what’s happening here (although I recommend you do!). Like the other two novels, very little happens in the way of plot, but you’ll be so wrapped up in all the French and the food that you won’t really care. “Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end […]
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