I downloaded The Gingerbread Girl as an audiobook. which lasted about 2 1/2 hours, so I’m not sure if it’s a short story or a novella or falls somewhere in between. As far as Stephen King stories go, it’s a little dull (she says of a tale about a serial killer), but not a bad way to kill (ha!) a couple of hours. Emily’s daughter dies of crib death at two months old, and Emily goes a bit crazy. She begins running, and doesn’t stop until […]
Still Odd
Forever Odd, the second in the series of Odd Thomas books, doesn’t quite live up to the first. For one thing, there’s a noticeable lack of the 400 pound, six fingered man named Ozzy who, along with his evil cat Terrible Chester, is one of the better characters. He’s in this one for about half a scene, and no one blows up his cow this go around. Also, the bad guy in this book has come specifically to hunt down Odd because she wants him […]
Black Heels to Tractor Wheels
This book is sappy and silly; a romance written about a superficial city girl and a mostly silent cowboy. The main character is obsessed with her spiky black boots and her wavy auburn hair; the boy gets his way in a slightly domineering manner that she just loves. But despite all this, I really enjoyed the real life love story of the Pioneer Woman (Ree Drummond) and her husband, whom she always refers to as “Marlboro Man”. I think that even though it’s a silly […]
Blaine the Train is a Pain
In the third installment of the Dark Tower series, the gunslinger and his companions (Eddie, Susannah) continue their journey towards the tower. Roland feels like he’s slowly losing his mind, as he struggles to reconcile the events of the first book and the second — in one, Jake the boy dies and in the other, he lives. Meanwhile, in New York in the 1970s, Jake, too, feels like his mind has split into two separate narratives that he cannot combine. “Roland grabbed Jake and hauled him […]