I stumbled upon Ortberg’s hilarious “How to Tell if You are in a Jane Austen Novel” a while back on The Toast web site so when this popped up as a Goodreads recommendation I took it to heart. A quick search of the CBR site tells me that quite a few of you have laugh snorted through this one. It’s a difficult one to review and I’m very tempted to just say, it’s very funny so go read it, but there is that pesky 250 word […]
There was no choice, really. Is there ever between the darkness and the light? You walk toward the smile rather than the frown.
This book is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series. I read Margaret Atwood’s book in the series, Hag-Seed, a year or so ago but wasn’t crazy about her play within a play retelling of the Tempest. I’m reading Edward St. Aubyn’s contribution to the series now, Dunbar, and not quite sure yet how I feel about his version of Lear. This re-imagined Othello set on the playground of my youth, however, is fantastic. I was immediately drawn to the echoes of that time: monkey bars, playing jacks, jump rope rhymes and […]
Thank you, Julie Murphy, for continuously not sucking.
I’m sorry to say that Meet Cute was my biggest reading disappointment of 2018 so far. It had everything I thought I wanted: how-we-met short stories from some of the best YA authors out there — including Julie freaking Murphy — and a recommendation from Rainbow Rowell. I assumed it would be a delight. And some of it was. I had never heard of Ibi Zoboi, but her story “Hourglass” was my favorite of the bunch. She told a story about Cherish, a tall African-American […]
Not what I was expecting
Spoiler warning! In my explanation of what worked and didn’t for me in this story, I will be going into plot specific details. If you want to approach this story completely unspoiled, you may just want to read the first few paragraphs. Binti is the first of her people, the Himba, to be offered a place at the Oomza University, the finest in the galaxy. She pretty much runs away, knowing that her decision to take her place at the university might mean she is no […]
Scalzi at his finest
If you have previously enjoyed books written by John Scalzi, I am certain you will quite like The Collapsing Empire. It is Scalzi writing at his best. The members of the World Science Fiction Society agree with me and it is nominated for Best Novel (Scalzi has previously won for Red Shirts). If you have never read anything by him, here are the reasons I look forward to his books. Scalzi has a great sense of humor and this shines in his writing. I tend to […]
Lets do the timewarp again!
A Symphony of Echoes is the second main novel in Jodi Taylor’s Chronicles of St Mary’s. It starts with a visit to Victorian London to meet Jack the Ripper, and continues on with kidnapping from the future, bad therapy, and making sure Queen Elizabeth I doesn’t get executed by Mary. These books are still proving to be a fun read, barrelling on at great pace and full of witty conversation and quirky scenarios. The story makes for an interesting “what if” scenario (what if Mary […]
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