My experience with Aziz Ansari prior to getting this audiobook was as follows. Playing exuberant, outgoing and quite exasperating pop culture and fashion obsessive Tom Haverford on Parks and Recreation, then more recently in Master of None as struggling New York actor Dev, who while quite different from Tom, frequently exasperated me nonetheless with his constant whining and inability to accept how good he had it, being really very privileged even as a minority actor. As a result, I wasn’t really all that interested in […]
An Affair Not to Care About
Perhaps reading this book after the Elizabeth Hoyt wasn’t a good idea, as it fell flat in comparison. Jillian Hunter is a new to me author, and I thought maybe this was one of her first books; a quick check on Amazon reveals there are a several by her already however. There’s a lot of praise for her, but I just didn’t get the same feeling about it. The style of writing and the historical inaccuracies annoyed me. The basic premise is that the four […]
The Heroine Actually Says, “Take Me Now”
My original plan for this review was to lay my head down on the keyboard as though I’d fallen asleep and let the random characters speak for me, like this: vgftbzxdfh dskjfsuir eso9=-fsdklasejl;. The Doctor Wears A Stetson hit all of my romance novel reading choice shame buttons. It was tedious and humdrum, but I still read it and was disappointed in myself for doing so. Technically, I read most of it, but not all, as I was not hopeful for improvement and if I […]
Going Full Boar on the Reformation of the Rake
This romance novel takes the historical niche’s Reformation of the Rake plot full boar with its contemporary counterpart, in this case in a new adult story, The Pig Becomes a Person. Romance novels have a limited number of tropes, to which I have no objection, but there is one, The Reformation of the Rake, which has to be handled particularly carefully. The hero, who generally has been shagging anything that moves finds a magical woman who, often in their first encounter, so rocks his libidinous world that […]
Stories Can Save Us
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a collection of short stories that revolve about a group of soldiers in the Vietnam War. The most interesting thing about the book to me is that Tim O’Brien is a Vietnam War veteran and he puts himself into the book as a character. He needs to tell his story, he needs to release the memories and yet, he doesn’t quite want to give a factual account of what happened to him and his friends there. So […]
His Own Heart’s Folly
This is the latest in the Maiden Lane series; a series that deals with both aristocrats and lower classes. The hero of this book belongs to the latter. Asa Makepeace is the owner of Harte’s Folly, a theatre/pleasure garden that burnt to ground at the end of one of the other books. He is determined to bring it back to life, with the financial backing of Valentine Napier, Duke of Montgomery. However, he hasn’t exactly been the best at keeping track of expenditures, and ignored […]
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