#cbr10bingo #ThrowbackThursday FYI if you are looking to fill in a #Birthday square on your card, Wodehouse’s birthdate is 10/15 (same as mine!) Back in my junior high/high school days, my sister worked at a bookstore and among the treasures she brought home were P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster novels. I could not get enough of them, and I thoroughly enjoyed the British TV series from the 1990s starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster and Stephen Fry as Jeeves. Even now when I reread these […]
Everything goes away, Jack Sawyer, like the moon. Everything comes back, like the moon.
This is a trope-filled fantasy novel that lives and dies by its uses of said tropes. It’s a road novel and it’s a novel that has the best and worst that Stephen King has to offer. I have no clue what particularities Peter Straub brought to this one because I don’t know his work at all and there’s so much Stephen King in this one it’s hard to separate. I did like this one a lot and think that it could make a very interesting […]
Then again, there were times he was forced to believe the exact opposite.
A Person of Interest – 4/5 Stars So I don’t know who did this book a disservice, but someone did. It was NOT the author, who wrote a very thoughtful touching and interesting book. Maybe it was the synopsis writer who tried to make it seem like a mystery novel, when it very clearly is not. Anyway, the novel is about a math professor in the 1990s who is in his 60s and he works at a smallish liberal arts college. One day a bomb […]