Okay. Here’s what it is. When a book is called The Book of Lies, I I wanted the narrator to be truly, truly unreliable. Unreliable as hell is what I wanted. I wanted her to bleed unreliability. I wanted to never feel sure what was going on, and at the end of the book, I [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Review: The Book of Lies, Mary Horlock
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged backstory is my boyfriend, I wish I could read more mysteries like A Dark-Adapted Eye, is this being marketed by a YA book? It feels like a YA book, knock wood my roommate woes are nearing their end, Mary Horlock, secrets secrets secrets!, The Book of Lies, the Channel Islands history is totally fascinating, this book is less heartwarming than the Guernsey Potato Peel etc which always makes me cry on October 31, 2011 | 26 Comments »
Speaking of good parents
Posted in Misc., tagged Daddy Daddy Daddy Daddy, Daddy!, my daddy is the best and it's about time y'all knew about it on October 26, 2011 | 45 Comments »
(which is what I was doing in my post about Patrick Ness), a word about my Daddy. Many of y’all already know how great my Mumsy is, because she is often lurking around the blogosphere, and because I talk about how she recommends me books, and because she sometimes guest-posts here. And I go on [...]
Review: River of Smoke, Amitav Ghosh
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about in a book, tagged Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke, Ibis trilogy, reviewing sequels is hard!, I hope I don't actually hit "publish" instead of "schedule" for the second time today, melancholy elegaic endings are one of my favorite kinds of ending, characters this good should get to play together! on October 14, 2011 | 11 Comments »
At last, at last! I absolutely loved Sea of Poppies when I read it last summer, and I have been babbling about it a lot since then, especially when in company with Teresa, who loved it first and put me on to it. I have been longing and longing for the second book in the [...]
Like crack cocaine to my dorky self
Posted in Misc., tagged FCC v. Fox Television Stations Part II: Say Yes to Obscenity, I miss John Paul Stevens, late summer is the absolute worst because everything awesome is on Break, not to get all political but I have a super huge crush on Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the fall is just better on October 12, 2011 | 32 Comments »
Y’all may not know this about me, but I love the Supreme Court of the United States. I love it. I have only ever really talked about John Paul Stevens on this blog, and God knows I adore John Paul Stevens, but more generally, I am a massive, massive fan of the Supreme Court. When [...]
Review: Becoming Shakespeare, Jack Lynch
Posted in 3 Stars, Picked up randomly, tagged "no theater and no Christmas" sounds like the White Witch's regime of wickedness, and "desultory" sounds like gagging, continue to stand by for my inadequate but effusive praise of a how their reputation happened sort of a book, dearest darling Shakespeare, I long and long and long to see a panto and deeply regret that I did not do so when in England, I miss the olden days when you could say "diverse" for "various", Shakespeare seems like a very springtime person for some reason, y'all may notice that remarks about my TBR shelf have leveled off (ruh-roh) on October 6, 2011 | 8 Comments »
What I wanted: A corrective emotional experience to How Shakespeare Changed Everything, which I hated. Why I didn’t read Will in the World, which I own and still haven’t read, rather than going to the library to get this: Y’all, I don’t know. I felt like a how their reputation happened sort of a book. [...]
Ugh, I suck.
Posted in Misc., tagged bother, bother bother, bother bother bother, bother bother bother bother, bother bother bother bother bother bother bother on October 4, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I posted a post too soon instead of scheduling it. Ignore my last post, if you have Google Reader! Ignore it! It’s not Ada Leverson’s birthday yet! (When I do this, I feel disproportionately embarrassed like it is a major social gaffe for which you will all (well, all the Google Reader users) judge me. [...]
Review: The Best of Everything, Rona Jaffe
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from a person, tagged apparently Don Draper was reading this in Mad Men one time?, books recommended to the world by Don Draper, feminism (and not), I wanted there to be more about clothes! I love clothes!, I was so jealous whenever anybody got their own apartment, Rona Jaffe, thank you lovely Rachel! I miss you lady!, The Best of Everything, The Group, there's no real reason I should compare The Group to The Best of Everything on October 3, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Not to be confused with The End of Everything! But read roughly around the same time. I know. I was really slow in reviewing this. I am just bad at reviews this years, you guys. I need to institute a system to make myself be more systematic. Rachel (come visit soon, Rachel!) told me that [...]
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