Well, I guess I owe Ms. Ng congratulations for writing a book that has seemed to appeal to so many people. Because despite the positive reviews and internet hype, I wanted to poke out my eyes with spoons after reading “Amazon’s Best Book of the Year for 2014.” You can go ahead and clutch your literary equivalent of pearls in your hands. I remain steadfast in my assessment. This book made me want to scream when I finished it. THESE ARE THE MOST ANNOYING PEOPLE […]
This one time, at office camp…
(NB – This is the earliest I think I’ve ever gotten my first review up, Quarter Cannonball, here I come!) Like many of you, I read The Hating Game and I loved it! So fun, so sweet (so didn’t write a review)! If you too loved The Hating Game, get on this book. Lucy and Evans work together at Burke Consulting Group. I love that the people in this series of books do real work. They are a consulting firm that helps municipalities do stuff […]
Quotation marks exist for a reason, for the love of God!!
So far, my CBR9 experience has just been about book club selections. This likely wouldn’t have been a selection of my own choosing, but it is what it is. I’m powering through my ‘required reading’ first, hoping to get to some of MY picks next week (I’m looking at you, copy of Kulti that just arrived in my mailbox today). The Orchardist is set in the American West in the late 1800’s. We meet Talmadge, an orchardist and quasi-recluse, living a solitary life […]
Angels and Demons
A few years ago I tried to read this and gave up in the first 20 pages because I was just not in the mood. I’m so glad I gave this a second try because it was a delight. Once the story got going, I could not stop listening (I opted for the audiobook version). Let’s just say there were some late nights involved and I seriously considered calling in sick to work. Karou is a teenager going to art school in Prague. At least, […]
Cult of Personality
Emma Cline’s book The Girls is set in present day, and also at during the hippie days of 1967 in San Francisco. There (in the past), we meet our narrator Evie. Evie, is a fourteen year old who is bored, seems to pretty much hate her best friend but can’t quite shake her (since they’ve been friends forever) and, waiting for the world to unveil its secrets to her. It’s the laughter of “the girls” that opens her eyes to the possibilities around her, and […]
Smoke and mirrors are more useful than you think
This was my second anthology by Neil Gaiman, and at first I had to check that this wasn’t the same as the first one. There are four stories toward the beginning that are also in M is for Magic (“Chivalry,” “The Price,” “Troll Bridge,” and “Don’t Ask Jack”) , so if you would like my opinion on those you can go here. The first thing that surprised me was that the introductions for the stories were all in the beginning, instead of before each […]
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