This is a book that begins in pain and ends in pain, but the journey from the beginning to the end does not take a straight path. The book opens in a French school yard where a boy has just been hit in the chest with a snowball and faints. His sister is brought in and what becomes clear is that the snowball has been packed with a rock. The thrower is an effeminate boy who becomes the object of desire of his victim. Thus […]
CBR Diversions: Holiday Season –Time To Give BOOKS
I completely ADORED My Lady Jane a few years ago. It was so refreshing and funny and unique, with such a great audio narrator. I had high hopes for this next book in the series and HALLELUJAH it delivered. It’s not quite as shockingly quirky as My Lady Jane (nobody’s fiance regularly turns into a horse for one), but what it lacked in quirk, it made up in literary references and jokes. Most of the Bronte family gets roped into the narrative here and it’s […]
Pancakes. Jello Shots. “Uptown Funk”.
Swedish Fish. Movie Popcorn. My mom’s fudge that she makes every Christmas (sorry Mom). This is a list of things that I love SO VERY VERY much at first and I simply cannot get enough!!, but then OHHHH GODDDD I’m super sick of it. That’s exactly the list to which I am adding this sweet, charming but hooo-boy overly long book. It was just a little- actually quite a bit- too much and I should’ve quit while I was ahead. I have to say, I […]
‘One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry,’ explained his host didactically.
So I might be the only person I know who doesn’t absolutely love The Master and Margarita, but I did really like this really bizarre little novella. This story is a kind of Pygmalion, a kind of Frankenstein, a kind of George Schuyler’s Black No More, and a touch of the episode of Futurama where Bender becomes human. This story starts with a dog thinking upon his own situation, eating trash, living rough on the street, and sleeping in the cold. He is brought into the warm house of a […]