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“I am wonderful, I deserve to be wonderful, and I contain multitudes.”

If It Bleeds by Stephen King

June 24, 2020 by scootsa1000 1 Comment

I haven’t been great about reading lately, and have been even worse about reviewing. But as a loyal Constant Reader, I felt like this might be the book to jumpstart my COVID reading habits, and I was mostly right. Similiar to earlier collections like Different Seasons, The Bachman Books, Full Dark No Stars, and Four Past Midnight, If It Bleeds is made up of four long-ish, unrelated stories (or novellas, if you’re feeling fancy): Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, If It Bleeds, and […]

Kidnappings, murders and snooping around in a high-class brothel

A Murderous Relation by Deanna Raybourn

June 23, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

This is the fifth book in the Veronica Speedwell series. There will absolutely be spoilers for some of the previous books in the series. Skip this review if you’re not up to date. It’s an excellent series; if you want to start at the beginning, pick up A Curious Beginning. Official description: Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian colleague Stoker are asked by Lady Wellingtonia Beauclerk to help with a potential scandal so explosive it threatens to rock the monarchy. Prince Albert Victor is a regular visitor to […]

A much stranger re-read than I was expecting

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

June 22, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

Official book description: DAY ONE The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. WEEK TWO Civilization has crumbled. YEAR TWENTY A band of actors and musicians called the Travelling Symphony move through their territories performing concerts and Shakespeare to the settlements that have grown up there. Twenty years after the pandemic, life feels relatively safe. But now a new danger looms, and he threatens the hopeful world every survivor has […]

Not for kids, seriously. Do not mistake this for YA

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

June 22, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

Official book description: Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of […]

Let’s read about penguins in Feb… June!

Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

June 19, 2020 by crystalclear 1 Comment

I chose this as our February “Script-to-Screen Book Club” pick, mostly because we have the licensing to show the movie in my library. It’s also on the “Battle of the Books” list for the 3rd and 4th grade in my area, so a win-win! We’ll find out if people actually show up to the program! (Edit – they did not.) Mr. Popper’s Penguins was first published in 1938, and it shows a bit. Mr. Popper is a house painter who doesn’t work in the winter […]

Oh yeah, that thing where you actually post the reviews you write!

Landline by Rainbow Rowell

June 19, 2020 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

I read Attachments, and really liked it. I read Carry On, and also really liked it. And then I read Landline. Well, listened to Landline, which faintingviolet now tells me was a mistake. I tried to like it, I really did. But I really couldn’t. There were so many places this could go. And by so many places, I mean anywhere. There was a great set-up, and then nothing really happened. There were great opportunities, and none of them were taken. Landline features a comedy […]

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