I don’t know, guys, this book just wasn’t for me. I don’t understand why the universe is doing this to me! It’s getting such good reviews, like glowing reviews, and really the sum total of my feelings can be described with a single syllable. (It’s “meh,” if you’re curious.) And it had such promise! Who doesn’t want to read about a mysterious fungus that makes people develop pretty black designs on their bodies that look like dragon scales, and then burst into flames? And a […]
Fleming Hid a Kissing Book in His Third Act
Hello Cannonball friends, did you miss me? It’s been nearly 4 weeks since my last review. Being gone so long as left me feeling a bit like this: I have been reading most of the time, but I’m working through two very dense books (Children of God by Mary Doria Russell and House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende) during a very busy time for me at work (Ah, summer camp season). So in order to get back on the reviewing bandwagon, I decided a […]
There was an incident, it was curious (and also at night) and then things really started to get interesting.
One of the benefits of dragooning your friends into doing the Cannonball Read with you is that they are another great source of book recommendations. I’m not sure when exactly Ale suggested The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time to me, but I have a feeling it was sometime around when she read Marcelo in the Real World last year. Both books feature protagonists with Asperger’s Syndrome, and Ale suggests Marcelo to people who enjoyed Curious Incident. Audible did me a favor […]
The Fault in our YA Lit?
I don’t read a lot of YA but The Fault in Our Stars took the world (both young, and older than young) by storm, so my curiosity was piqued. Then, my favorite podcast Literary Disco (CHECK IT OUT) did an episode about it so I had to read it before listening to the episode so that was just the nudge I needed. I did the first half of this as an audiobook, and the second half as an ebook (just because I wanted to speed things along) […]