There are few things I enjoy more than a well crafted scary short story. As a kid cutting my teeth on Stephen King I loved his short story collections more than anything. Still do for that matter. My favorite collection of King’s is Skeleton Crew. Horror classics like “The Raft”, “The Jaunt”, and “Survivor Type” haunted me for years after reading them. Still do. In recent years Neil Gaiman’s short stories have filled the void King left for me. The first collection I read, Smoke […]
You Keep Using That Word I Don’t Think It Mean What You Think It Means
Alma Harper is a young music teacher. She’s working on rekindling her romance with her on again, off again boyfriend Paul and life should be pretty good. But when two amateur ghost hunters roll into town they cause Alma to attempt to remember what happened to her, to her family in Widowsfield sixteen years prior. For some reason the number 314, or pi haunts her and has some kind of control over her. She cannot remember what horrible event affected the population of Widowsfield on […]
Mother Daughter Relationships Can Be Complicated
Ten years after being convicted for the murder of her mother, Jane Jenkins is released from prison due to the mishandling of the evidence. Instead of going back to Hollywood and living in the spotlight of her notoriety, she instead assumes a new identity and disappears from the public eye in the hopes of finding out the truth behind her mother’s death. As a teen, Jane wanted nothing more than to be the next Paris Hilton and she set about Hollywood ensnaring men and being […]
Alas, even an exploding whale couldn’t save this one.
Here is a brief list of things that I enjoy more than I enjoyed this book: Getting my teeth cleaned. A colonoscopy. Going to the grocery store. Making three interesting & healthy bag lunches every day for my kids. Helping with math homework. Doing laundry. Driving on the beltway. Shoveling snow. Dusting. Vacuuming my car. Cleaning up confetti. Eating radishes. Here’s a list of what I did like about this book: Exploding whales. I did not like this book. I got it from some sort […]
Disappointed with Pullman
After very much enjoying several of Philip Pullman’s other books (His Dark Materials and companion books, The Firework Maker’s Daughter and The Scarecrow and His Servant), I had high hopes for the Sally Lockhart Mysteries. In the first book, The Ruby in the Smoke, we meet Sally who, at age 16, has been recently orphaned. She is curious to know more about the circumstances of her father’s death after receiving some ambiguous information. Sally has had a very nontraditional upbringing in 1872 Victorian London, so […]
Lost in Thought
Before reading this novel, I saw two very different reviews of it. One, in Salon, favorably compared Find Me to Station Eleven and The Handmaid’s Tale. The other, from NPR, found it to be lacking and unworthy of such comparison. My opinion is that while the first half of the story does make it seem as if the novel has the potential to rank up there with esteemed dystopian fiction, the second half disappoints. Laura van den Berg is a seasoned and well regarded writer of […]
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