This was my other drunken audiobook choice from my library’s wine tasting. It had a cool title, and then I saw David Tennant was reading, so I grabbed it! The language is very clever, or maybe it just seems so with David Tennant reading it. (And he has to sing at one point, and he’s using a sprite voice, and I don’t think he enjoyed that part.) A long time ago, before England was England, there was a great forest from sea to sea. And […]
Drunk book choices are the best book choices
So I brought fantingviolet to my library’s annual wine tasting, because my library is awesome like that. With the advent of the self-checkout feature on their app, we get the lovely combination of drunken book selections! We were drinking in the children’s section (being the youngest group at the wine tasting) and so I was able to peruse the lovely selection. I picked up the audiobook of Kenny and the Dragon, because it looked interesting. After I chose it, I realized that it was narrated […]
Okay except for the font
I was drawn to this because of the cover. We have a little demon dude and some very disgruntled chickens. This little demon friend only has two limbs, and they appear to be sometimes legs and sometimes arms. Wait, they mention toes, so I guess they’re legs. We have some fun little hamster and bunny and butterfly friends by the text, so that’s fun. They’re just chillin’ out. He also talks to himself, kind of like Gollum in Lord of the Rings. It’s a bit […]
Roald Dahl wrote some weird stuff
James and the Giant Peach I think I forgot how nasty Roald Dahl could be to his characters. Poor James is orphaned at the age of four because his parents are killed and eaten by an angry rhinoceros, which is especially tragic considering rhinos are herbivores. James is sent to live with his horrible aunts, because we need horrible abusive adults in our story. Then there is a crazy old man, who is completely off his rocker. The old man gives James a bag of […]
So bad it made me make up a bad metaphor
So I thought this was going to be Craig Ferguson’s biography. I know it says “a novel” but I still thought it was semi-biographical at least. I was wrong, it appears. This is not good. It bounces around and rambles. Everyone seems to have miserable lives. Some of the background characters have interesting stories, but as others have mentioned, women are not portrayed well. I didn’t hate it as much as other people, but I didn’t like it either. We follow certain people around, […]
Not-very good men do not very good things
In Ferguson’s reading guide to this novel he mentions that he was heartbroken while writing this novel and this statement both surprised me and not surprised me. It starts out as a simple tale of two friends, an incident at a river and then drifting apart. Then there’s two Americans who start a religion and it seems destined that all the tales will intertwine. They do, but not in any satisfactory way. This is not a pleasant novel. It is filled with not-very good men […]
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