I read this book because I am very slowly working my way through all the books that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Dunces won in 1980. There is a certain anticipation when starting an award winning novel. I wonder “What is so special about this work? Why did it win?” I wonder if I am up for the challenge, if I can do the work justice as a reader. I didn’t know what I was getting into.The beginning of Dunces is rollicking and […]
The anarchist’s wet dream!
Forty-third book reviewed as part of the 130 Challenge. How would you like a ball busting, head chopping, tank driving bitchy diva who has serious fun while doing it all? Bring it on, I hear you say? Well, that and a lot, lot more than that is what Tank girl is all about. Tank Girl is an outlaw living in the Australian Outback who hangs out with her boyfriend, a mutant Kangaroo; her best friend, a junkie Aborigine; a stuffed toy Koala bear who hasn’t come […]
The new king of the dads has risen.
My daughter can’t even read and she loves this book. She says it’s about mommies, which is amazingly on point, since I haven’t read any of it to her. I also feel I should point out that the color scheme is the same as my old Livejournal.
A highly fascinating and VERY funny journey
Even the most casual and brief visitor to my blog will note that I am not much of a non-fiction reader. But this was greeted with rapture by lots of reviewers and by a couple of people over on here. So when it popped up as a Daily Deal on Kindle, I thought “why not?” and my goodness am I ever glad I did because I LOVED it. Roach clearly has an intense fascination with the human body. She’s published books about dead bodies and copulating […]