Okay, y’all convinced me to try this one with your stellar reviews (so.many.reviews), and thank you scootsa1000 for loaning me a copy! I’ve said before that I don’t really read romances novels, but like many of you said, Kulti isn’t really typical of the genre (or my impressions of the genre, anyway). And I do love Outlander, and romcoms, and Taylor Jenkins Reid, so it’s hardly surprising that I enjoyed this. I also read a lot of fanfic — like, if fanfic counted towards my CBR count I’d be a […]
Wicked Tales
The cover of this book has a quote from a review in Independent that sums up these nine short stories better than I ever could: “If this collection can be said to have a clear uniting theme, it might be that by a certain stage of life we’ve all got at least one person we would really like to kill”. That’s…pretty much perfect. “What is a stromatolite? he asks rhetorically, his eyes gleaming. The word comes from the Greek stroma, a mattress, coupled with the root word […]
“Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”
I read Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft when it first came out, about 15 years ago. Some of it stuck with me pretty vividly, mostly about his personal history — like when he talks about dropping a cinder-block full of wasps onto his foot at age three!! — but I’ve never reread it. When I saw that Overdrive had a copy of the audio-book read by King himself, I eagerly downloaded it. While some of the writing lessons aren’t quite as gripping the […]
Probably more like 3.5 stars, but I’ll round up in Bernie’s honor
I’ve been reading and rereading Lawrence Block’s Bernie Rhodenbarr series for years (like, probably close to 20 years — they were on the shelf above Lillian Jackson Braun’s books at my library and I picked them up at some point in middle school when I’d exhausted The Cat Who…) but I’ve never really read anything else by him — although he’s published quite a bit. I saw his name on this story collection, along with some other favorites (Stephen King, Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, and Craig Ferguson, […]