So I thought this was going to be Craig Ferguson’s biography. I know it says “a novel” but I still thought it was semi-biographical at least. I was wrong, it appears. This is not good. It bounces around and rambles. Everyone seems to have miserable lives. Some of the background characters have interesting stories, but as others have mentioned, women are not portrayed well. I didn’t hate it as much as other people, but I didn’t like it either. We follow certain people around, […]
And not a duck to be seen!
Quackery: A Brief History on the Worst Ways to Cure Everything is indeed what it says on the box. We have an intro into what each method is, and then how awful it was and why. It’s very informative, but for each thing it comes across as a Very Big Deal. Each of these methods were indeed used, but it seems like the authors over-inflate their importance. Mercury (I’m sure everyone knows by now that medically, Mercury is a Very Bad Thing) Antimony […]
The trippiest trip you’ll ever take
Oh dear. So that happened. I’m From the Sun: The Gustafer Yellowgold Story was a free Audible Original that I thought looked interesting. And it certainly was that. This whole thing is a giant acid trip, complete with music. I actually originally thought this was a story based on a song from some artist I’d never heard of. But no. No, this was definitely not what I was expecting. So, as the title suggests, our tale takes place on the Sun. There is a […]
The princess ends up much better off at the end
I’d heard of this in a few places, so I was glad to get the chance to actually read it. This children’s book is very cute with a bit of a twist at the end. We start off with a princess getting to marry a prince. They both have very fancy clothes and are very proper. Then, a dragon comes and burns the princess’s castle down and takes the prince with him. All of the princess’s belongings burned, and the only thing she can find […]