Some overall reactions to my re-read of this book: The Gruffs are still great. Just the perfect amount of gravitas combined with ridiculousness. There are still too many fight scenes that go on for too long. (My mind wanders during fight scenes unless something else is going on.) And there are some things in here that read differently when you know what’s coming! Spoilers ahoy. For instance, there are about three references to Harry semi-jokingly noting that Kincaid could shoot him from very far away, […]
“I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we’re still alive.”
I think its safe to say that I’m addicted to my Audible account. Driving around all day and meeting with demanding clients is hard, so the best thing I can do is lose myself in a great story and a great narrator. And I think that’s why I keep coming back to these Dark Tower books…the narration is great, the story always delivers something new for me, and it really doesn’t matter if I hear every single detail or not, because I’m stuck on Ka’s […]
I somehow never read this as a kid!
With all the excitement surrounding the new movie coming out, I wanted to read A Wrinkle in Time again. I say again, because I was nearly convinced I read it as a child. Somehow, I did not! I’m not sure how that happened, because this is right up my alley. I listened to the audiobook in the car, and it went so quickly! I loved it by the way. I already put holds on the rest of the books in the Time Quintet, so look […]
Experimental af and I loved it
When I was home for Christmas, I took the opportunity to extol to my mother the virtues of my local public library and its available online system for ebooks. I demonstrated by showing her my hold list and, as mothers are wont to do, she had comments on several of my selections. My mom is also a vociferous reader and I do greatly value her opinion, but when she described Lincoln In The Bardo as “weird”, she didn’t mean it in a good way and bless […]