I keep saying that I won’t read more of these. And yet, here we are. I think the fact that I can read these books in one sitting makes me feel like they aren’t so bad, that they’re fine, that I’m just spending an afternoon enjoying something light and enjoyable. But I’m not really enjoying them anymore, so what’s my deal? So here’s the story: Zombies have come to Trenton. And they are stealing brains from dead bodies. Meanwhile, Diesel is in town and sleeping […]
I can’t remember anything about this book except for bioterrorism and Lula with a “personal massager”
Somewhere on my Stephanie Plum journey, I missed number 22. And I have to be honest, I don’t quite remember what happened. Wacky shenanigans, Bob pooping everywhere, Lula, Grandma, Mrs. Plum ironing, Morelli being a cop, Ranger hotly being hot… it’s all the same, just with a different bad guy. There’s something about a fraternity (is there a college in Trenton?), a murder of a guy nobody liked, and I kind of remember some sort of radioactive bug or some other kind of weird bioterrorism […]
A Break from Horror
I started Joe Hill’s NOS4A2 a few weeks ago, and before I got terribly far into it I realized I might need to put it down sometimes and read something less scary that doesn’t deal with murdering children. I imagine I will eventually finish Hill’s novel (maybe not in time for CBR9 though), but for now, I’ll be talking about Janet Evanovich’s Two for the Dough, the second in her long-running series on bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. In Two, Stephanie is still working out the […]
Beach Reading in November
I have a huge back log of Kindle Deals of the Day on my Kindle, and I like to go back to Amazon to see where I was in my life when I decided I wanted to read something. I purchased Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money in June of 2016, right in the middle of maternity leave. I think I just assumed I would be getting a lot of reading done while I endured night feedings, day feedings, and got stuck under a finally-sleeping […]
A Stephanie Plum plot checklist.
Is this a review? I don’t even know anymore. But I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t really have anything new to say about these books. Its sort of like Janet Evanovich has a 200 page template and just fills in the blanks. Like a gigantic, best-selling Mad Lib. I really don’t know why I still read these. I don’t like them that much anymore. But maybe I do? I don’t know! I’m annoyed that Stephanie SPOILER slept with Ranger because she had some […]
All you need to know about this is that Ranger goes to Disney World
Note: Spoilers abound. Are there really spoilers in a Stephanie Plum book, though? I mean, we know that Lula is going to wear outrageous outfits, that Grandma is going to do something wacky, that Mrs. Plum is going to drink a little bit of Four Roses in her iced tea glass, and that Stephanie is going to have some near-death experiences. In installment 23 (are we really up to that number?), we open with Stephanie and Morelli’s relationship status upgraded to engaged to be engaged. […]