So I feel a lot of ways about this book, which is basically the opposite of the premise of the book, but what are you going to do? To begin with, I think the authors’ stated premise of the book is both valiant and worthwhile: “to turn your bullshit wish into a goal that can actually be achieved.” That sounds good, right? Sounds… so much better than endlessly trying to figure out why a thing is happening, or how you can prevent bad things from […]
The Ghosts of Anti-Semitism Haunt Holland Through Soccer
Read for Cannonball Run Bingo. Category: White Whale. The World Cup was on this past summer and anytime I see it, I’m inclined to read more books about soccer. I’m a big sports fan but my interest in soccer really only begun about 12 years ago when, bored out of my mind for the summer of 2006, I watched the World Cup fastidiously. Soccer is now perhaps my fourth favorite sport after baseball, football, and basketball and I’m wearing a New York City FC shirt […]
All Empires Fall, Eventually
This was a CBR Book Exchange book from a few years ago, thank you Mrs. Smith. I lent it to my father, who lent it to a friend, and then when I got it back it shuffled to the bottom of my tbr pile. That eye stares at me accusingly. I decided to start it last night hoping I would finish in time to write a review for bingo. Um. Less than 24 hours later, I’m finished and writing the review. The review may take […]
A Murder Mystery and a Family History
It has been a long time since I have read a non-fiction book that I could not put down. Maybe it is because it reads like the murder mysteries that I am partial to, or maybe because I could hear the author’s voice in every word. Whatever the reason, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film was exquisite. Written by the granddaughter of Abraham Zapruder, the book takes the reader through the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the home movie that was […]
Hot in Maine
This book was given to me in a “swag bag” from some event or other that I participated in recently. I initially pooh-poohed the book away because I generally don’t read romance novels. But I found myself needing an easy, mindless read to pass the time on a long flight, so I decided to give this one a try. This is not my preferred genre, so maybe my expectations were particularly low, but I found the book better than I expected. I did not love […]
Classic Worth Revisiting
I recently read this as a read-aloud book with my 10 year old son. He found it at the library and thought it looked interesting, but found that the language was a bit confusing, so we decided to do it as a read aloud, so that we could stop and discuss whatever he did not understand. I had initially read this book years ago, and am glad that I had the opportunity to go back to it. I had forgotten how funny and rather exciting […]
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