First of all, Rowling wrote this book in order to donate the proceedings to charity (specifically, Comic Relief). J.K. Rowling rocks. Also, the book is a lot of fun, which also rocks. And finally, I have a weird thing for Eddie Redmayne, and now I can go see the movie! “Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don’t you buy a new one then? Ron: Write on your own book, Hermione. Hermione: You bought […]
“It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.”
I read another book by Rick Bragg earlier this year, and I liked it despite the fact that Rick Bragg wrote it about himself, and…he’s kind of an ass. BUT this book focuses on his rather impressive grandfather, who comes across as much more likable, and Bragg still manages to write it in the friendly chatting style that I really enjoyed in All Over but the Shoutin’. “It is true that almost everyone in the foothills farmed and hunted, so there were no breadlines, no […]
I want this rewritten as a regular novel!
I wasn’t entirely certain whether or not I liked this book as I was reading it, until I got to the end and realized I really wanted to read the sequel. So I guess that’s a fairly positive recommendation. My main issue was with the style in which is was told. “Generally speaking, people tend not to question what they’ve been told was true. Scientists are no different; they’ve just been told a lot more things.” 17 years ago, Rose Franklin falls into a hole […]
“the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce”
I tagged this as both “fiction” and “biography/memoir”, because Alice Walker explains that many of the stories are loosely based on her own life. I don’t know enough about her to fully separate fact and fiction (although a little Googling gave me some clues), but either way it’s a wonderful collection of stories. “We’ve never seen weather like the weather there is today. We’ve never seen violence like the violence we see today. We’ve never seen greed or evil like the greed and evil we see today. […]