Just the other day I assumed I would take forever to finish Joe Hill’s NOS4A2, pushing me past CBR9. I was wrong; there comes a point in the novel where it becomes really difficult to put it down and I reached it and blitzed through til almost 1am last night. Which is saying something I suppose, considering I’m usually snoring loudly by 11:30 most nights. NOS4A2 is a supernatural thriller slash crime novel with a kickass heroine and a pretty good cast of supporting characters. […]
A Break from Horror
I started Joe Hill’s NOS4A2 a few weeks ago, and before I got terribly far into it I realized I might need to put it down sometimes and read something less scary that doesn’t deal with murdering children. I imagine I will eventually finish Hill’s novel (maybe not in time for CBR9 though), but for now, I’ll be talking about Janet Evanovich’s Two for the Dough, the second in her long-running series on bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. In Two, Stephanie is still working out the […]
Snoooooooze.
Sometimes I read something and I wonder if I have just really missed the point. Such is the case with Colm Tóibín’s Nora Webster. Nora Webster takes place in Ireland in the late 1960s, a time of social turmoil and ripe for interesting story-telling. It is the same town in which the heroine of his novel Brooklyn was raised but aside from a quick cameo by her mother, it’s not really a sequel by any means. Nora has recently lost her husband Maurice (to what […]
Beach Reading in November
I have a huge back log of Kindle Deals of the Day on my Kindle, and I like to go back to Amazon to see where I was in my life when I decided I wanted to read something. I purchased Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money in June of 2016, right in the middle of maternity leave. I think I just assumed I would be getting a lot of reading done while I endured night feedings, day feedings, and got stuck under a finally-sleeping […]