Michael Dobbs’ House of Cards was a daily deal not too long ago so I figured I’d see how it compared to the Netflix series through which I am slowly making my way. If you aren’t familiar with Netflix, then you probably live under a rock and have no idea what the show is about. In any case, the novel (apparently the first in a trilogy) from which the show took its ideas, takes place in London, and more specifically in the back rooms and […]
The Only Moderately Interestings
Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings tells the story of six friends who meet at a summer camp for the arts in Massachusetts in the late 1970s. The six youths remain great friends into their 40s and beyond (well, four of them do) and experience life, love, death, heartbreak together in New York City. Jules (nee Julie), Ethan, Jonah, Cathy, Goodman and Ash gather for the first time in a teepee at Spirit in the Woods in 1974 and dub themselves “The Interestings” at first ironically, but one […]
CBR7 9 and 10
I’ve been meaning to get around to reading more romances lately. Nothing I’ve read this year (till last week) included any cascading hair, pert nipples, rock-hard abs, or stays. To remedy this I bought the first four books in Courtney Milan’s Brothers Sinister series (one was free actually, yay!). I’ll review the first two here because why not? The others will follow later, after I’ve finished a couple things The Duchess War The first in the Brothers Sinister series concerns Miss Minerva Lane (aka Wilhemina […]
“Everybody has a heart that can be touched by something.”
My book club’s May/June book is The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida (David Mitchell of Cloud Atlas fame spearheaded its English translation). I don’t personally know anyone on the autism spectrum, but I have acquaintances affected by this and I am always eager to learn more about the way we are and what it means to be a child with special needs and how they see the world differently than I. Naoki Higashida is a young man in Japan who was lucky enough to […]