Oh dear, where to start with this one. I wanted to like it, I really did! But ultimately this book was such a let down. It reeled me in by professing to be a contemporary, gender swapped version of Pride and Prejudice. And on the surface, it is. Darcy Fitzwilliam is 29 and works in New York City as a partner in the financial district. She has no friends, no romantic life, but buckets of money. When her mom has a heart attack, she rushes […]
I Didn’t Mean to Read This Whole Book
As many people are aware, 2017 was on the whole, a bit nuts. My personal and professional life decided to follow suit, and while I may appreciate the travel miles and hotel points that racked up, I’m looking forward to a more stable (personally) 2018. I started at new job with the new along with the new year, and while I’m searching for housing in a new area, I’ve been staying with family during the work week. Wednesday night, I sat down to read aloud […]
The Boring Lives of Medium-Level Jerks
Hi everyone! This is my very first review of my very first Cannonball! And… it nearly sank my ship. You know that thing people say about “when someone tells you who they are, believe them”? I should have taken that theory and applied it to this book. There’s a quote early on about the family whom this book revolves around: “There was nothing remarkable about the Whitshanks… But like most families, they imagined they were special.” The key word here is “imagined” because they aren’t […]
Fun space caper
Artemis is the second published novel of Andy Weir, of The Martian fame. The book is titled after the city Artemis, the only city on the Moon in the near future. With about 2,000 residents Artemis is tiny and mostly dependent on its tourism industry. People save up for trips to the Moon to be able to experience lunar gravity and see the historic site of the Apollo 11 landing. Artemis is brought to life by it’s narrator, Jasmine (Jazz) Bashara, Saudi born but raised on the Moon […]
Pity Poor Mrs. Popper
We’ve started reading chapter books to Baguette at bedtime. Our first was The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White. Neither Mr. Sandwich nor I had read that as children, and we’re continuing that with our next selection: Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater. On its surface, the story is cute enough. A seasonally unemployed house painter unexpectedly takes delivery of a penguin, and hijinks ensue. There is a second penguin, and then little penguins, and more hijinks. Baguette is enjoying the story, […]
Who is the hero, who is the villain?
In 2015 I was introduced to V.E. Schwab through her book A Darker Shade of Magic, which I devoured and then a year later was pleasantly surprised to find out it was the start of a trilogy. Each time I chatted with the booksellers at my favorite bookstore and ADSoM came up they always asked if I had read Vicious. I kept admitting that I hadn’t and they would always chime back about how good it is. This year for our family holiday book exchange I […]
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