So after I finished Bryson’s Thunderbolt Kid, I checked Overdrive to see what other books of his they offered. A Walk in the Woods came highly recommended, and I’m here now to recommend it to you! If you want to read several hundred pages about the beautiful scenery and history of the Appalachian Trail and come away thinking, “God lord, I’d love to do that but those people are crazy!”, then you should definitely read this. “Black bears rarely attack. But here’s the thing. Sometimes they do. […]
“By Aladdin’s lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.”
Practical Demonkeeping was Christopher Moore’s debut novel, and I’ve had my copy for approximately 20 years. I have a vivid memory of picking it out at this awesome discount bookstore by our house and convincing my mother to let me buy it. I was maybe 11. It was way too adult for me. But I loved it at the time, and have reread it several times since. I just found out that Moore wrote TWO sequels to it (!!) and when I recently found one at Half […]
‘Falling in love is a desolating experience, but not when it is with a countryside.’
When Helen Macdonald lost her father unexpectedly, a man whom she loved and admired very much, she went a little crazy. She’d always been obsessed with falconry, and so she decided (rather spur-of-the-moment) to get a goshawk and train it. A lot of her inspiration came from T. H. White’s The Goshawk, a book that she read as a child — and hated because she felt that White didn’t know what he was doing. “When you are broken, you run. But you don’t always run away. […]
“Kate, stop being crazy!” There they were again, the most patronizing words on the planet.”
Mother, Can You Not? is a memoir by the woman who released those text messages that went viral, in which her overbearing mother continually gives out her daughter’s phone number to every man in sight in order to fix her up. I’ve never had much luck with these blogs turned into books because they often seem to rehash the same material. I figured this would be another one of those S*** My Dad Says collections. But it’s very highly rated on Goodreads and free through my […]