The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a collection of short stories that revolve about a group of soldiers in the Vietnam War. The most interesting thing about the book to me is that Tim O’Brien is a Vietnam War veteran and he puts himself into the book as a character. He needs to tell his story, he needs to release the memories and yet, he doesn’t quite want to give a factual account of what happened to him and his friends there. So […]
I’m NOT Drinking That
So this is embarrassing. I can’t stop reading this book series. Every time Ann Charles puts one out, I’m like, “Ooooh! I like these books!” And so I buy them. But the truth is? I don’t think I actually like them…I just CAN’T stop reading them. It’s like that one time I ate an entire Blooming Onion by myself and I felt greasy, ashamed and most of all sick. I learned something that day at the Outback Steakhouse but apparently Ann Charles speaks to me […]
Like Kool Aid And Boxed Wine (Mixed Together)
So Book Bub is sometimes my friend and sometimes my nemesis. This time? I have no idea what it is to me. So I guess I checked off Romance, Mystery and Suspense…and this one has all three in its parenthetical sub title so it would make sense that they would send this selection to me as something I may want to read. And read it I did. 171 ridiculous pages of something I really didn’t want to put down but I have no idea why because […]
Never Going to Romania…Sorry, Not Sorry
Follow You Home follows (see what I did there?) Daniel and Laura as they are wrapping up what is supposed to be a trip of a lifetime. After this, these thirty somethings are going to settle down, have a baby and live an uneventful but happy life in London. But you know what they say about best laid plans right? Yeah, everything pretty much goes to hell. The happy couple find themselves on a train travelling through Romania. There’s already a little tension because Daniel […]