I had a very bad day on Thursday. But I had the day off from work, and some time to collect myself, so I decided to run a bath at 11 o’clock in the morning. I needed reading material — because I can’t take a bath without it — but I had finished my previous book and hadn’t yet started a new one. Between my crappy mood, and the fact that I didn’t want to get out of the tub to get a different book, I […]
Everything I wanted (but didn’t get) from the Gilmore Girls revival
I am and always will be a huge fan of Gilmore Girls. I started watching the show when it premiered and as a nerdy brunette who loves to read, who was also the same age as Rory Gilmore, I identified with her strongly — despite the fact that my mother is a good thirty years older than I am. I love and cherish the show and still re-watch it every six months or so. The last couple of seasons aren’t so great, but they’re forgivable […]
You can almost taste it…
I am currently halfway through one Stephen King audiobook, most of the way through Lauren Graham’s audiobook, have recently restarted Neverwhere (I was in the mood for comfort food) and also listened to an hour of Outlander (my project for 2017 — listen to all the Outlander novels on audio) at the nail salon today. All of this to say: this will be my last review of 2016, as I’m nowhere near completion on anything else! “I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and […]
The Not So Amazing Adventures of Zelikman & Amram
I just left a comment on another CBR raving about Michael Chabon. And it’s true — I love the man’s writing. But this book was just really not very good. I started out liking it, because the language is enchanting. But I realized quickly that it was a lot of fancy words describing something I just could not enjoy. ““[A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result – and have been since at least […]