Jon Ronson has also written a book about extremists called Them, which I’ve heard of but never read, and he wrote the book Men with Goats, which was adapted into a movie that I know I saw but possess no recollection of. I heard about this book — The Psychopath Test — on the Daily Show a few years ago. I placed it on my TBR list and pretty much forgot all about it until I saw it at the library this weekend. “Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was […]
Good story, terrible audio production
Orson Scott Card’s Shadow of the Hegemon continues the Bean-focused storyline from Ender’s Shadow, with a good focus on Peter Wiggin and Petra Arkanian as well. We have Achilles back as the bad guy, and Card does a much better job of fleshing him out this time around. “What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other […]
The Girls You Left Behind
The Girl You Left Behind actually features two abandoned girls: Sophie Lefèvre, whose husband left her to fight in World War I, and Liv Halston’s, whose husband died after 4 years of marriage sometime in present day. While I personally found Sophie’s tale most engrossing (after all, she was the subject of Monsieur Lefèvre’s painting, The Girl You Left Behind), both women find themselves in some kind of battle, tied together by this incredible portrait. “Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she […]
Humor that holds up
Dave Barry released this book (which I bought for a quarter at a book fair) in 1988, and it basically contains all of his newspaper articles for the previous several years. Despite the dated politics (it contains a lot of Nixon & Reagan jokes), it holds up surprisingly well, considering it’s 27 years old (oh my god that means my little sister is also 27 years old…). A lot of it remains very relevant, overshadowing that which does not (such as a whole chapter on the […]
Dooce!
I started reading Dooce.com around 2003 or 2004 — whenever she had her first baby (the main subject of this novel) — and spent a few weeks reading through the hilarious archives. The book came out a few years later, and by then I’d kind of quit checking in on the antics of Heather Armstrong — mostly because it had turned primarily into a design blog which isn’t really my thing. I checked in a few days ago when I finished this book, read that her […]
An Adequate View
I…kind of liked this book. It was…okay. Overall, the annoying/dull parts ended up getting balanced with the interesting parts, so it kind of ended up being average. Appropriate for a novel where one of the main characters owns a hotel called “The Adequate View”. “Then she smiled, and in that instant, if such a thing were possible, Pasquale fell in love, and he would remain in love for the rest of his life–not so much with the woman, whom he didn’t even know, but with the moment.” A lot happens […]
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