I started the first book in Ken Follett’s Century Trilogy – The Fall of Giants — in mid-October of last year. A combination of the books’ long lengths, the fact that I was listening to them on CDs borrowed from the library (which meant they took longer to get through, and I spent a good amount of time on a waiting list) all added up to my spending about six months with these characters, and their children, and their childrens’ children. And while I enjoyed […]
I’m Still Mad About Bridget
So yes, Fielding kills off Mark Darcy in the third book of the Bridget Jones series. That was very upsetting. But honestly, I thought this novel was better than the second one, Edge of Reason, which was pretty Darcy-centric. Mad About the Boy is all about Bridget, just like the first book, and her shitty love life and her faltering career and her obnoxious (but we love them!) friends. There’s a new element to Mad About the Boy, though, that was probably the best part of the book: Bridget […]
“A Novel in A-Flat”
There were parts of Adam Langer’s Ellington Boulevard that I really liked, and other parts that I really didn’t, so I figure that evens out to about 3 stars, right? This is one of those books with a handful of characters who all end up connected in one way or another. A lot of the novel rests on the characters — their actions towards each other propel everything. Basically, anything involving the tenant, the buyer, the buyer’s husband, the buyer’s husband’s girlfriend and the tenant’s dog were all golden (this is […]
“Odd”, Indeed
Did you know Koontz has written like, seven Odd Thomas books now? I know I’ve read the first two, maybe the third…. So I thought I’d reread the series from the beginning at get myself reacquainted with this…special…young man (especially since my library has the whole series on eBook!) “I’ve since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.” So, Odd Thomas lives up […]