I’ve been seeing the phrase “start as you mean to go on” flying around a lot as we collectively, tentatively tiptoe into 2019. 2018 was an utter disaster for me, and although 2019 is better so far – touch would, knock on wood, hug wood – I’m afraid of jinxing myself. I can’t say that I’m glad I read Zombie, and I very much hope it’s not how the year continues in terms of reading or anything else. I want to add the qualifier, “It’s not a bad book,” […]
“Health and dignity are indissociable in human beings.”
It’s hard for me to gauge exactly how interesting a book like this may be to someone else, because when asked about my fantasy dream career, I say epidemiologist. And not the fun kind – the data wonk kind. I think objectively, this book is objectively “exciting” if you have a tolerance for fairly dry excitement, and a lot of details on slow, frustrating, painstaking searches for pathogens, outbreaks, sources of contamination, and underlying causes of the things that plague us. Despite the rather dramatic […]
“…Let me assure you, Lula – nobody’s normal.”
I was so reluctant to start this book. The cover just screams “twee” and “manic pixie dream girl” but someone here, who knows who, had written a sufficiently glowing review that it made it to my TBR list and well – there are rules. Once it’s on the TBR, I have to at least try it. But believe me, I wouldn’t have otherwise. And man would I have missed out. Weird Girl and What’s His Name is such a sweet, tender, funny book. The pace […]
There’s a reason my “permission to DNF” system exists.
An ISTJ through and through, I have some rules for myself and books. Sort of a flow chart type of deal. If it ends up on my Goodreads to-read list for some reason (intriguing CBR review, loved another of the author’s books so much I added their entire catalog to the list, it looked interesting at a bookstore, recommendation from my Granny), it will be checked out from the library (if you think I don’t have a system for randomizing which one’s up next, you’ve […]