Strangers at the Feast is about a family getting together for Thanksgiving dinner. Scholar Ginny has rebounded from a bad relationship by semi-legally adopting an Indian orphan called Priya, and she wants to bring her family together to meet Priya. The family is Ginny’s brother Doug, who has lost significant money since the housing crisis, [...]
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Review: Strangers at the Feast, Jennifer Vanderbes
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged adopting an orphan on the rebound is stupid and obnoxious, class conflict, foreshadowing, I am the worst book blogger ever because I never remember to write reviews, Jennifer Vanderbes, Strangers at the Feast, the prospect of tenure could never convince me to write a mean article about my father's profession on March 31, 2011 | 19 Comments »
Review: The Husbands and Wives Club, Laurie Abraham
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged anyone have any good TV therapists to discuss?, Laurie Abraham, oh Catin Soeur move back here now I miss you so much <3<3<3, The Husbands and Wives Club, Turkmeniscam sounds less than groundbreaking but I am still curious to read it on March 20, 2011 | 22 Comments »
I wish there were a whole section of the bookstore called “Journalists go do something really interesting and then write a whole book about it,” and it would include The Unlikely Disciple and Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers, and this book I want to read called Turkmeniscam, and it would also include The Husbands and Wives [...]
I am back! Sort of!
Posted in Misc., tagged I wish I had also found Shirley Jackson's other two novels dammit on March 15, 2011 | 54 Comments »
Argh, catching up after vacation is hard. I keep forgetting to write reviews of the books I read on vacation. They were not that numerous, all things considered. So here is what I want from you. 1. Advice. I likedish Three Men in a Boat but then I remembered that Jerome K. Jerome and I [...]
Leaving on a jet plane
Posted in Misc., tagged going on vacation yaaaaaayyyy, recommendations pls on March 6, 2011 | 23 Comments »
My darlings, I am off on a vacation this week. I shall see two of my oldest and most awesome friends, go shopping for spring clothes at thrift stores, inspect an apparently very wonderful used bookstore, and watch Angel with my clever friend tim. I will miss you, and I continue to love you, but [...]
Review: The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
Posted in 1 Star, Heard about from the internets, tagged Erskine Childers, I need to get me some H. Rider Haggard love now, maybe I will use the TARDIS to go back in time and KathyBates H. Rider Haggard into writing me some spy novels, the expectations gap strikes again!, The Riddle of the Sands on March 3, 2011 | 48 Comments »
FiveBooks! What? How could you let me down like this? The Riddle of the Sands was supposed to be one of the five best books in all the land on the Secret Service. Uncool! I just thought it was going to be so excited, nonstop intrigue and deception, culminating in some sort of thrilling climax [...]
Review: Among Others, Jo Walton
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged #teamnarnia, Among Others, and furthermore I didn't buy the diary format AT ALL, Cormac McCarthy still hates me, Jo Walton, The Charioteer is awesome and I really wish you would read it, Walton does something clever and quiet with Mori's response to her sister's death on March 1, 2011 | 36 Comments »
Why I read the end: The protagonist bought I Capture the Castle thinking it was a historical fiction book about an actual siege. I half wanted to make sure Mori found out the truth about the book, and half wanted Jo Walton to leave it alone as a sly nod to those of her readers [...]
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