The second of “The Lady Sherlock Series” did not disappoint. (I reviewed the first in the series here). I come to these books with zero knowledge of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock. I am only familiar with the ex Mr. Madonna’s Sherlock and Benedict Cumberbatch. Perhaps I should read “A Study in Scarlet” for the “This Old Thing” BINGO square? Personal edification! On the heels of solving her first murder case, Charlotte Holmes (aka Sherlock) is presented with two puzzles to solve that are even closer to home […]
…so alone, twice captured, carried away on the flood of the world
I’m on a roll with really, really good books lately. This is a good thing, but makes the review part more tricky. My reviews for books that move me tend to be sort of bland. I think that I am trying not to get all “Read This Right Now!” and fan girly about it and that restraint leads to ho-hum reviews. I am sorry about that. So, I guess for this one I will say READ THIS RIGHT NOW ! This is a tiny little […]
We were such a fierce little tribe
My parents got divorced when I was 9. I was an only child but my father’s second wife had kids from a previous marriage. After their marriage, my father moved to the other side of the country. For me, that was a big culture shock and I was endlessly fascinated with the mechanics of sibling interactions. I had never had to “call” a seat for a car ride before. It was like I had landed on the moon for a month every summer. This was in […]
Cocaine! Fancy Food! Danger! Super Boring! Balloon Pop Pretentiousness! (CBR10 Bingo)
At a certain point in your adulthood, as you grow into the role or at least identify what the concept of adulthood actually means to you, it becomes easier to spot a phony. Part of it is the experience of life; you’ve lived long enough, hurt enough and wear the scars like a beauty sash made of caution tape. These friends float into your life like party balloons, relationships with a short shelf life that start bright and colorful, ultimately full of nothing but air […]
”Joy in every pore”
Hi! We’re lowercasesee (lsc) and NoNeinNyet (NNN) and we joined forces for the CBR Bingo Two Heads Are Better Than One category to review Cary Elwes’s oral history of the making of The Princess Bride. lsc: I like it! Overall, I was utterly charmed, start to finish. NNN: It was great! Just the warmest experience I’ve had with a book in recent memory. lsc: Warm is such a good adjective! There’s just joy in every pore. NNN: All of the cast and crew members interviewed for this oral history clearly still […]
I was cruising right along for the first half, and then. . .
CBR Bingo entry Backlog. This is gonna sound weird, but this novel lost me when it started introducing too much plot. I was loving it for the first half when we were just learning about the characters and making fun of people in Seattle (no offense, Seattle), but then things went off the rails for me, and not in a fun way. Where’d You Go, Bernadette is a story about a semi-dysfunctional family living in Seattle. Bernadette was once a celebrated Los Angeles architect who […]
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