I borrowed George Takei’s Oh Myyy! from Caitlin_D and honestly, you can probably just read her assessment of it since I agree wholeheartedly. It’s a collection of memes amid Takei’s take on the internet. Despite the fact that he mentions several times that his Facebook page aims itself (successfully!) towards the demographics of men and women in their twenties and thirties, this book sounds like it was written for people of his own generation who don’t understand how the internet works. It’s funny — he’s a […]
Well that was disappointing
So I’ve mentioned before that Practical Demonkeeping is one of my favorite Christopher Moore books. I reread it recently because I found a copy of the sequel at Half Price Books and wanted to refresh my memory of the first book before reading the second. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove is that sequel and it was honestly pretty terrible. It doesn’t feature hardly any of the characters from the first book, although it does have the same setting. I’m not really sure why he bothered to […]
“Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.”
Spoilers for book/season 1 of Outlander. “I will find you,” he whispered in my ear. “I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you – then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the […]
“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.”
I have 9 reviews that I need to post, so forgive me if some of them are on the briefer side! This Bill Bryson book is a collection of newspaper articles that spanned several years in the nineties. Basically, Bryson went to go live in England for 20 years and when he came back he was slightly startled to see changes — not only how much America was different from England, but also how it had changed in the years that he’d been gone. So […]