I’ve seen reviews of In the Woods (2007) by Tana French, and they’ve pretty much all been positive, so I’ve had it on my to-read list for a while. When I finally got around to reading it, I really had no idea what to expect. The title is so similar to the musical Into the Woods, that I was half expecting a weird fairy tale. Yeah, not so much. Rob Ryan and Cassie Maddox are the unlikely, but very effective, partners on the Dublin Murder Squad. […]
Dating in the new millenium
I was happy when my book club decided to read Modern Romance (2015) by Aziz Ansari because it had already been on my library wait list for months. I had to do some maneuvering to pick it up before our meeting, but I was looking forward to reading it. I knew Aziz Ansari was a comedian from Parks and Rec, but I had never seen his stand-up and was not too familiar with him. I still expected great things, though, because comedians often write entertaining, surprisingly […]
Losing 10 years of your life makes for an interesting story
What Alice Forgot (2011) is the third book I’ve read by Liane Moriarty. I’ve enjoyed all of them, although Big Little Lies is still my favorite. The premise for this one was…perhaps a little unrealistic, but very intriguing, putting it in a strong second on my list of favorite Moriarty books. Alice wakes up on the floor of a spin class. She’s told that she’s fallen and was knocked out. Alice doesn’t understand why she’s in a gym, and she doesn’t know half the people calling out […]
War and football (and also much more)
I was in the middle of reading Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012) by Ben Fountain when I accidentally stepped on my Kindle. Somehow my foot knocked my Kindle off airplane mode and the WiFi turned on, immediately returning all my overdue books back to the library. It wasn’t until a couple of months later that I finally got Billy Lynn back on my Kindle and finished reading it. This isn’t very important except that I’m pretty sure I would have gotten more out of this book […]
Post-apocalypse with a political agenda
My book club gets me to read a number of books I would have never read otherwise, and One Second After (2009) by William Forstchen is one of them. On the one hand, this book is a bestseller, with 4.5 stars on Amazon and over five thousand reviews! That’s a good sign. On the other hand, this book begins with a foreword by Newt Gingrich. Eww, please don’t mix my fiction with politics, especially politicians I don’t particularly like. One Second After is a post-apocalyptic tale set […]
Animals are people, too, or people are animals, something like that
Sometimes I think I should have been some kind of wildlife biologist/animal behaviorist. But not one that performs experiments or has to kill its research. I’d rather just watch and observe. In Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures (2013), Virginia Morell answers the question of whether animals are able to think and feel by describing studies done with a number of different animals. If you asked me when I was in kindergarten whether animals had thoughts or emotions, I would have said ‘of […]
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