Oh, this was so good. I love love love The Princess Bride. My dad introduced it to us as kids and I’ve watched it over and over. Then I discovered the book a couple years ago, and loved it even more. I enjoy the humor, the romance, the sword-fighting, the framing of it as a story told to a sick child. Much is made in this book about how the film’s marketing department didn’t know what to do with it — is it a fairy tale for […]
Walls of Water is one hell of a name for a town
Another Southern mystery/romance/fantasy from Sarah Addison Allen. I need to not read these back to back — they tend to run together, and I run out of things to say beyond “these are so sweet and cute and fun!”. “We’re connected, as women. It’s like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there’s trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we’re just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don’t help each other, who will?” So fancy […]
Magic wallpaper & a ghost in the yard
More sweet sugar from Sarah Addison Allen. I really liked The Girl Who Chased the Moon — there’s a couple of mysteries to solve, a lovely young lady as a main character (not to mention her gentle giant of a grandfather), and some magical cake-making. Definitely one of her better novels. “Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn’t have to live down someone else’s.” The Girl Who Chased the Moon follows two main characters. First, there’s teenage Emily Benedict, who has come to North Carolina […]
Well, this one will be a movie soon, I bet
Mary Kubica’s The Good Girl has been endlessly compared to Gone Girl (primarily because the titles are similar, would be my bet), and while it offers similar suspense and mystery, it’s really a different book. It’s not quite as good, in my opinion — just not as tightly plotted — but still very enjoyable and compelling. And it has one hell of an ending — it blindsided me and made me want to reread the whole damn thing. “I didn’t set out to be a bad mother, […]