The Dig is a brutal book – both physically and emotionally. It’s also a constantly gripping and involving story that will stay with you long after you put the pages down. At its heart, the story centres around two very different people, and how they react to the land and animals around them. One is a farmer named Daniel, recently mourning the loss of his wife and struggling to maintain the farm by himself, and the other is a vicious badger-baiter and all-round vacuum of […]
I’m so glad that these vampires don’t sparkle.
Holly Black is an author who
“We’re all dead, son. Some of us are just a little further along than others.”
For my fourth cannonball read review, I decided to read some Young Adult fiction. YA is the ultimate mind escape for me, and a really good one can be an effective mini brain vacation. A lot of buzz was generated by Rick Yancey’s novel The 5th Wave, and I decided to jump on the reading bandwagon. Now, while my greatest fear is some sort of zombie/alien/vampire attack that forces civilization to live in caves again, I can’t help but enjoy any post-apocalyptic books. And teen romance […]
A Historical Romance with Bustles
The Importance of Being Wicked is a romantic comedy of manners of the “you are everything I never knew I always wanted” variety. Victoria Alexander’s dialogue is wonderfully droll. I should have loved the book and yet it took me forever to get through. As my romance total climbs, I sometimes think I am losing interest in the genre, but the real issue is that it is taking better stories to claim my attention. Winfield Elliott, Viscount Stillwell, has been engaged and left at the altar three […]
The Tiring of Popcultureboy
It occurred to me while I was reading this book that I have been trying (and failing) to read the whole Booker Prize long list for a really long time now. The first time I attempted it was back in 2004, and I think the reason I have never succeeded in reading the full Booker’s Dozen of 13 books is that some of them I found to be incredibly boring. For every absolute gem (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, I’ll Go To Bed At Noon, […]
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