The Bus on Thursday – 4/5 Stars This was an audiobook and I hadn’t heard of it before I looked a little into and downloaded it from Overdrive. Also, had this not been Australian I might not have listened to it, and had I read the back I wouldn’t either. I also almost turned it off early on because of a kind of off-key line that I didn’t like. But something clicked in my experience at some point and I ended up really liking it. […]
In which I parody Kurt Vonnegut to stick it to cancer
CBR 10 Bingo: Birthday – Kurt Vonnegut born November 11, 1922 This is Kim Pendergest, Cannonball Read 10’s reporter on the Afterlife. During yesterday’s controlled near-death experience, I interviewed Kurt Vonnegut and asked him to explain why he decided to write God Bless Dr. Kevorikian. “So what’s the deal?” I asked. “Was this just a cash-grab?” “Not at all,” he said, “I started writing these as 90-second spots for WNYC, the public radio station for New York City.” “Thanks for the exposition, but I know […]
Not With a Bang but an Ice Nine Whimper
I have a rather large back log of books to review and, I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been trying to squeeze them into as many bingo slots as possible. So when I went looking for author birthdays I was completely delighted when I found Kurt Vonnegut had been born on November 11th. This places him within the required time line and Cat’s Cradle fills the Birthday slot on my bingo card (and guys, I’m so close to Bingo). So this book, like a lot of […]
I really need to reread Vonnegut
When I was growing up, my dad had every single Vonnegut paperback published before the mid-nineties. I read them all when I was young, focused on the fact that I was so precocious for reading Vonnegut, but not understanding a damn thing. This collection of speeches — primarily given at graduations, but also one for an award — makes me want to reread them all again, now that I might actually appreciate his words. “My Uncle Alex, who is up in Heaven now, one of the things […]