This book came to me as part of a book offer for Cannonball Readers, in exchange for which we promise to give a fair review. So here is the fair review: in short, I was… disappointed and frustrated, over and over again. Fundamentally, I blame the editor more than the author, because what happened for the most part to make me hate The Rushing of the Brook as much as I did is that it is incredibly sloppy. There is a cutting back and forth […]
I don’t know how I let things get so out of control, but I do
Every human that I know and trust in my life has heard me rave about this book. I’m going to keep my lunatic love for Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body to a tight word count here, but please know that if we are sitting together for any length of time, and the opportunity to talk about it comes up, you won’t be allowed to get a word in edgewise for probably at least two hours. I love it. I love Roxane Gay’s voice. I […]
Class-war evil supernatural black fungus
I raced through Rivers of London: Black Mould when I brought it home from the library (pro tip: if a book is brand new and it’s not on the shelves but it’s definitely in the catalog, ask your librarian to check the back room! maybe it hasn’t even been shelved yet!), but honestly it didn’t make much more of an impact on me other than to keep moving the Rivers of London universe forward for me. Not that that isn’t of value, because of course […]
Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. I cannot emphasize enough how much of a treat Good Omens is. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett will also tell you how much of a treat it is. They will tell you in their introduction and their afterward how much they wrote it for the love of it […]
Southern comfort mystery
This was another disappointing read for me. I am sliding into double cannonball range with a string of books that are just not doing it for me! This was a random grab at the library, and unfortunately it’s book #15 (!!) in the Sarah Booth Delaney series – not a good idea to jump into something so far along into its run. As per the Amazon blurb: Sarah Booth Delaney is heartbroken: her fiancé Graf Milieu has decided to move to Hollywood permanently, leaving their […]
Mint means good.
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to live in England. I mean, really live here, when you’re done eating crumpets and scones and marveling at the beautiful buildings and the kindest, most wonderful people (though I can only speak for the North). When you’re done with that and you almost become one of the English people then it just you riding the train. A lot. And you still get lost a lot. And the places you get lost are hillsides down to train tracks […]
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