I got the okay on this one on Twitter but mods please let me know if it doesn’t count. I didn’t listen to the audiobook of Neverwhere but rather the BBC’s radio play adaptation – the one with McAvoy and Dormer? It’s basically the greatest. So the gist of Neverwhere is: everyman Richard Mayhew accidentally stumbles into London Below, a society made up of the people London Above forgot, with danger at every turn. He is sucked into a mission to protect the Lady Door from assassins and […]
Standing Still
Bingo Square: So Shiny! Picking up after Me Before You and After You, Still Me finds Louisa Clark in New York, working as an assistant for the Gopnik family. Specifically, Lou is there to help Agnes Gopnik, the much younger (very unhappy) second wife of Leonard Gopnik. She handles Agnes’s schedule, attends swanky events with her, and keeps her secrets. They’re friends you see. Lou also attracts other ‘friendly’ attention in the form of Josh, a man who looks strikingly similar to someone Lou loved […]
CBR Bingo: Brain Candy
Celebrity memoirs are an escapism go to of mine and I am sort of surprised I didn’t already tag one of them as my “brain candy” bingo square. But since I had forgotten about this category while reading Chrissy Metz and Ashley Graham’s respective memoirs H. Jon Benjamin’s Failure is an Option gets the official tag. H. Jon Benjamin, the H standing for Henry although his friends and family have already referred to him as Jon, recounts his life’s failures in this quasi-memoir. I listened to the audio […]
Not sure what or why
I’m not sure where I found this book and like I read the whole thing without putting it aside and it was entertaining but I’m also not sure what I read or why. You ever have those books? The House of Broken Angels (and that’s Angel, like the Spanish name, not angel like Islington) is about a sprawling Mexican-American family and its patriarch. Big Angel is said patriarch and is more or less the main character, but the book is about more than him. It’s […]
Sugary sweetness and a lot of fur, claws and cuteness
This is my Brain Candy (mmm candy…) Kids will love Fuzzy’s Great Escape (Class Pets #1) by Bruce Hale. Me? I enjoyed it, even with the fact that there were a few holes in the story line for me. The story seems to start in the middle of a series. Perhaps there was another series that introduced Fuzzy and friends? There will be others in the Class Pets series, so perhaps he plans flashbacks. (There is a character mentioned that you have never meet as […]
It’s only a novel…
In Northanger Abbey we meet Catherine, an optimistic young girl who likes novels. She goes with her parent’s friends to Bath where she makes new acquaintances and meets Henry Tilney to whom she becomes attached. However Catherine is at once too naive in her friendships as well as a bit too imaginative. Stories are made up and they create stumble blocks for Catherine’s true happiness; marriage to Mr. Tilney. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have […]
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