I totally admit that I picked this book because the back cover mentioned a hunchback. Luckily, it turned out to be quite a good read (I’ve been on a good streak lately!) The Story of Forgetting weaves three narratives together. First is that of Abel Haggard, a hermetic hunchback living out his last days alone (well, with his house), on a shitty little farm in the the middle of a subdivision somewhere outside Dallas. Abel reminisces a lot about his life, specifically about his brother […]
Moral Disorder: and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood
Oh look, it’s another Margaret Atwood book that I devoured and adored. I know, I know, you’re all amazed. “She wasn’t ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had not found anyone to settle down with. There had been several men in her life, but they hadn’t been convincing. They’d been somewhat like her table – quickly acquired, brightened up a little, but temporary. The time for that kind of […]
Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
I had to keep stopping this book in order to read chunks out loud to my husband (which I’m sure he loved) because it was so wonderfully ludicrous that I couldn’t help but share. Classic Christopher Buckley. Boomsday refers to the day that all the baby boomers start collecting social security and, you know, the whole economy collapses. Since this is a Christopher Buckley novel, our protagonist is a super-hot, whip-smart 28 year chick named Cassandra Devine (yeah). He does know how to write interesting […]
Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro
Another impulse purchased that panned out! Elegance is two books in one. Our main character Louise picks up a 1940s dictionary called (duh) Elegance (an impulse buy for her as well) and it ends up changing her life. This dictionary has A to Z chapters about various woman-related subjects, from sweater seats to make up to proper ettiquette. While rather dated and occasionally ridiculous (such as, the entire chapter on furs), Elegance the dictionary guides Louise into realizing how unhappy she is in her marriage (to a cold, possibly […]