That’s right, everyone! My puppy voice paid off! My mumsy has agreed to review Blankets here guestily. I am hoping that she will find she loves doing guest reviews and will subsequently write about some of the cool and interesting books she read when she was getting her master’s degree in pastoral theology. She has [...]
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Guest review: Blankets, Craig Thompson
Posted in 5 Stars, Heard about from a person, tagged Blankets, Craig Thompson, graphic novels, I was never able to write a satisfactory review of Blankets and here is my mumsy in the breach, memoirs, my mumsy is very wise and used to tell us she knew everything and it's possible she really does on April 28, 2010 | 16 Comments »
National Poetry Month! It’s nearly over!
Posted in Misc., tagged C.P. Cavafy, Ezra Pound, it's Libraries Month too though isn't it so I should also say: HOORAY FOR LIBRARIES, June Jordan, National Poetry Month, Sylvia Plath on April 27, 2010 | 24 Comments »
That post title sounds celebratory, but actually it is urgent, because National Poetry Month is nearly over and I have still not gotten it together to write a post about poetry. And now that I am sitting down to do it, I’m not sure what to say, because I do not really understand my tastes [...]
Review: The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged as you can imagine I found it easy to sympathize with the distracting nature of Tiffany's First and Second and Third Thoughts, confession: I get "ambiguous" and "ambivalent" mixed up all the time; possibly I should excise both from my vocabulary until I've got them sorted out like I did with "gregarious" and "egregious", Discworld, fantasy, for young people, Once Upon a Time Challenge, Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men on April 26, 2010 | 33 Comments »
You know how sometimes you really, really want to like a book? Because maybe people have suggested it to you with great enthusiasm, and you think they are lovely people, and you don’t want to hurt their feelings by disliking their book? And also it is a book by a British author full of British [...]
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Posted in Misc., tagged I started calling my mother Mumsy as a joke but I did it for too long and now that's what I call her all the time, needless to say my puppy voice triumphed over her reticence, stand by for a guest review by my lovely Mum who introduced me to reading in the first place on April 22, 2010 | 45 Comments »
Me: I came over to visit my schnooky puppy an’ snuddle her little puppy self and kiss her puppy nose. Mumsy: Why are you like this? Me: Oh, hey, Mumsy, you should do a guest review on my blog! Mumsy: No. Me: Yes! Mumsy, you should! What about all those reviews you do on GoodReads [...]
Review: Weight, Jeanette Winterson
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged are all of Jeanette Winterson's books this distracted?, Atlas and Hercules, Greek mythology, Jeanette Winterson, retellings, Weight on April 21, 2010 | 31 Comments »
I feel like all the Kage Baker books I’m reading should qualify for the Once Upon a Time Challenge, because they do feel more like fantasy than science fiction. However, despite their genre-bending qualities, they have cyborgs, and the time travel is done with machines. So Jeanette Winterson’s Weight, a retelling of the myth of [...]
Review: Sky Coyote and Mendoza in Hollywood, Kage Baker
Posted in 3 Stars, 4 Stars, Heard about in a book, tagged Bugs Bunny features in Sky Coyote which made me smile, even when these books are not long on plot they are pretty gripping, I discovered today TO MY EXTREME CHAGRIN that Candy Land has inexplicably changed the Molasses Swamp to the Chocolate Swamp, I further discovered that Mr. Plumpy has been eliminated and Princess Lolly & Queen Frostine downgraded to Lolly & Princess Frostine, I mean why would you change Queen Frostine's name? IT RHYMED, Joseph is way more fun as a narrator than Mendoza actually, Kage Baker, Mendoza in Hollywood, Sky Coyote, The Company, time travel, Time Travel Reading Challenge on April 20, 2010 | 22 Comments »
I was going to review Kelly Corrigan’s memoir The Middle Place, but then I realized that there is no particular value in reviewing things in the order you read them, especially when you are devouring a series like a wascally wabbit devours carrots, and each review you write that is not dedicated to the series [...]
Review: Poppy Shakespeare, Clare Allan
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged books I would have read for my mental illness challenge if I had finished inventing that challenge by now, Clare Allan, I can identify with that resistance to change because I hate change and it stresses me out. A LOT., I don't know why the library would refuse to order any of my books and then turn round and order books for my friend, I positively use the library more often than she does and it's not like I accrue huge fines or anything, libraries work in mysterious ways, maybe she just asks for books the library was going to get anyway, mental illness, Poppy Shakespeare on April 19, 2010 | 44 Comments »
Remember when I said I love y’all? And one of the things I said was that y’all have offered me books just because I said I really wanted to read them? Well, Poppy Shakespeare is one of those. raidergirl at an adventure in reading reviewed it a while ago, and I had a moan over [...]
Review: Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement, Lauren Sandler
Posted in 1 Star, Picked up randomly, tagged anyway thanks for all the fantasy recommendations, I've already started reading three of the books y'all suggested, Lauren Sandler, other things about which I have been self-righteous this week include a mean lady at the post office; Americans; the South; and the Department of Justice, perhaps I should do something immoral to get me off my high-horse, Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement, this book made me mad on April 15, 2010 | 15 Comments »
I was enjoying Righteous well enough for the first half of the book, though I did recognize that I might be burning out on Christian culture. I feel I am ready to move on and tackle some of the zillions of recommendations y’all gave me for fantasy books (y’all rock, by the way, thanks for [...]
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Review: In the Garden of Iden, Kage Baker
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged Elizabethan England but no Shakespeare, historical fiction, In the Garden of Iden, isn't it glorious to find a new author who's written loads of books?, Kage Baker, my excitement may be less to do with this particular book and more to do with the NEW AUTHOR buzz it gives me, please do not judge me for my mental sound effects, science fiction, there are like seven more books in this series plus a bunch of short stories, trapunto writes good reviews and leaves thoughtful funny interesting comments and recommends me good books on April 17, 2010 | 37 Comments »
Embarrassing confessions can be good for the soul, so here’s one of mine. Sometimes when I read a book by a new author, and I really really like it, and then I go to the library and see there’s a whole shelf of books by that author – sometimes, when that happens, I get a [...]
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