With a title like The Woman in Cabin 10, this novel already brought to mind all of the “girl” thrillers we’ve had lately — Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, The Luckiest Girl Alive, etc — which all have messy, unlikable woman as protagonists. So when The Woman in Cabin 10 begins with our main character waking up drunk and fuzzy-headed in the middle of the night, I may have let out an audible sigh. BUT I was pleasantly surprised with this one, which stars a flawed but likable woman […]
This one starts decently but then…it gets worse
You can usually tell when an author has a small but rabid following, when Goodreads has their rating insanely high (4.51 in this case — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone has a 4.42) but less than one hundred reviews. That should have been a big clue to me, in addition to the fact that I have never heard of YouTube star Shane Dawson (I promise I’m not super old — just kind of old). But whatever — Overdrive recommended it, and at least it was short? […]
“You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.”
I am a huge fan of Neil Gaiman, and have read pretty much everything he’s ever written. Well, now I really feel like I’ve read everything — this collection of every speech he’s ever given, every introduction he’s ever written, along with multiple interviews from his journalist days feels pretty inclusive. It’s not the kind of book you can sit down and read all at once, but over the course of a week or so, it’s a nice glimpse into a lot of things that Gaiman […]
If you really need a laugh, you can always check out his haircut on the cover
Oh, Dave Barry. You may not be the height of sophisticated humor, but you crack me up every time. My city has an annual book sale to raise money for the library — it’s basically my Christmas (mass market paperbacks for a quarter!) and I always managed to find at least one Dave Barry collection every year. The basic “theme” of this one is Dave Barry reacting and responding to various weird ass stuff that readers have sent to him over the years. For example, news articles […]