Even though I’m trying to catch up on my book reviews, I am trying to not half ass them. If that means going and reading a summary to remind myself about the book so that I can get in the moment, so be it. However, I’m not going to do that with this book…and I’ll tell you why. Stephanie Plum novels were gems…right up until what? Maybe book 8? Then after that, I’d check them out in the library a few years after they came out […]
One Has an Answer, the Other Does Not
So this is what my life has come to. I’ve become the person I never wanted to be. No, I didn’t kill anyone…but I did read a shit ton of books and never came back to review them. Now it seems almost a Sisyphean task, but I’m going to see if I can double up my reviews and you can deal with my cheating in silence on the other end of the Internet, ‘mkay? I’m a big fan of Lisa Lutz. She wrote the Spellman […]
A Glass Castle is a Perfect Metaphor
I typically write my reviews in a timely fashion. In fact, I typically have a rule that I can’t start my next book until I write my review. It keeps me honest, up to date and together (because I always want to start the next book). Well, rules went out the window after reading this book. I have no idea what it is about it, but I was altered by The Glass Castle. I didn’t want to write about it, I didn’t want to stop thinking about […]
Dolph Kids 4 life
The caption to this picture is pretty much how I felt after reading this book. After enduring the 2nd book I somehow talked myself immediately into reading the third one. I was hooked…not because it was good mind you, but because Love, Lattes and Angel promised me voodoo priestesses, reincarnation and the Bermuda Triangle (and delivered on all three I think). Let me make one thing very clear before I tell you EVERYTHING about this book. It is pure garbage. Many times I caught […]