For most of CBR10, I’ve been in a real reading rut. While I’ve read plenty of books I liked, there have been only a few that met my criteria for The Kind of Book I Love to Read: The story is engrossing: I have to feel like I can’t put it down. It’s not just engrossing, but also evokes specific emotions: I love a book that makes me feel happy or excited, or that awakens my curiosity or makes me want to learn something new. […]
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
“There once was a boy named Milo who didn’t know what to do with himself – not just sometimes, but always.” Milo always longs to be somewhere else. He’s bored in school and longs to be home, but then when he gets home he wants to be somewhere else. Nothing is ever really interesting until one day he receives a mystery package containing one (1) phantom tollbooth. Milo sets up the tollbooth, gathers the change and then charges up his little electric car and drives […]
Good Enough to Keep Reading the Series But Stop It With the Petunia Shit – It’s Not Cute
Bingo Square (Round 2): Birthday! I was going to use Stephen King this time around but I wasn’t in the mood. I wasn’t actually that interested in reading the rest of the Bill Hodges trilogy after Mr. Mercedes but I heard there was a connection to his latest, The Outsider, so I added them to my TBR list! Unfortunately, they kind of feel like homework right now rather than something I really want to read. When I started googling authors of the books I am more interested […]
My first (almost) introduction to Pratchett, and it was a great one (Bingo Square: White Whale)
I recently decided to get back into audiobooks to listen to while going to the gym. The gym is not my idea of fun, so I wanted something that would be–well, fun! I’ve been meaning to read Pratchett for years now, having only read (and loved) Good Omens before this. Guards! Guards! was one of the ones people recommended starting with. Luckily the audiobook was available on my library’s Overdrive, so I downloaded and gave it a chance. The story opens with the Grand Master of […]