One of y’all recommended this one, and I can’t remember who it was, but thank you. It was a great read and I’m definitely going to see if the library has anything else by this author, because she cracked me up. “Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.” So Sarah Vowell kind […]
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Ah, this book was so much fun! I’ve read Munroe’s comic strip — xkcd — on and off for years, and have seen some of his “what if” questions online when they’ve gone viral. Here, he’s collected a bunch of weird, wonderful questions and answered them with an excellent combination of math, science, and humor. “They say there are no stupid questions. That’s obviously wrong; I think my question about hard and soft things, for example, is pretty stupid. But it turns out that trying to […]
Quadruple Cannonball! And some chicks on a boat.
My goal this year was a triple cannonball. I seemed to have exceeded that. “He was met by a collective shriek as the brides parted like biblical waves around him.” A few others have reviewed The Ship of Brides here, but in case you’ve missed it, here’s a plot summary. At the end of World War II, hundreds of women in Australia had married British servicemen and then ended up separated from them during the course of the war. In 1946, these women took airplanes and […]
“You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”
Jojo writes in the introduction to this one that she never really intended to write a sequel to Me Before You, but the fans demanded one so here it is. I’m not sure that Me Before You really needed a sequel, but I’m glad she provided one — even if it’s not quite as good as the first (when are they ever, really?). “You know what makes me feel down? The way you keep promising to live some kind of a life, then sacrifice yourself to every […]
The Giant in the cargo bay
And so I’ve reached the (current) end of Orson Scott Card’s Shadow Series. Allegedly, he has another novel called Shadows Alive in the works — but no idea when that will be released. I enjoyed Shadows in Flight, but it definitely feels more like set up for the next book than a novel in its own right. “What I want,” he said softly, “is to stand in this meadow and walk in the light of the sun.” After the events of Shadow of the Hegemon, Bean and his three […]
“Push yourself. Don’t settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
Like my sister warned me — get your tissues ready for this one. “All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine. You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.” Louisa Clark has been sort of muddling through life — she’s dated the same guy for 7 years without it really […]
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