This was the third book I picked up at my library’s wine tasting in my drunken haze. I chose it because it looks adorable. Indeed, the illustrations are absolutely lovely with a lot of attention to detail. Mercer Mayer obviously put a lot of thought into every page, and probably some research, too. We have a little boy who is playing pretend in his backyard. He’s imagining that he’s living 1,000 years ago as the squire for “the bravest knight in the kingdom.” This kingdom […]
“Where did I go wrong in life?” Everywhere, Chelsea. Everywhere.
Right off the bat, I don’t like this. I wouldn’t have chosen it but for the fact it was the only book I could get other than Wicked, and I read that a while ago. And we start with a seven-year-old busting into her parents bedroom to photograph them having sex, based off a bet by her older sister? A seven-year-old who practices swearing and is proud of the fact. Nope. I don’t know how much of this is based on truth and how much […]
“Whatever you choose, you can rest assured knowing that you have a proverb to back you up.”
An Apple a Day is a book of proverbs. It’s not a proverb dictionary, rather it is looking at proverbs in relation to their relevance today. The introduction goes through the progression of some proverbs. They can start out being quotes, like in Shakespeare or the Bible, and then be a proverb, and then if overused can become a cliché. Here are some of my favorite ones, usually due to some of the extra bits the author included. So a lot of quotes. “A […]
Don’t let this happen. Go out and vote!
Holy crap this is depressing. And terrifying. We have our main character, Winston, who’s 39. He starts off by doing a forbidden thing: writing in a diary. He is terrified that the Thought Police will find him and kill him, or if not that then send him to 25 years of hard labor. The Thought Police can find you anywhere. There are screens that are constantly on playing propaganda news and military music and whatever else they want the people to see, and the Thought […]