This book is heavy. I can see how it has excellent movie potential, but wow the subject is difficult. I spent the better part of the book reading with my jaw gaping open – part anger and disbelief that such a situation could occur in the first place and part thankful that I never had [...]
Entries from March 2010
March 25, 2010
Review – Summer Sisters
As I started reading Summer Sisters, it felt oddly familiar. I thought I’d read it before, but couldn’t put my finger on any of the major plot elements. So, I continued. I’ll be honest and say that the beginning of the book was carefree, the middle made me angry, and the end changed my mind. [...]
March 17, 2010
Bookish
I love bookstore type gifts. We dogsat this past week for some marathon runner friends of ours who were headed to Catalina for a race. As always, Annie was a saint. Well, except for that half bag of dog treats she devoured out of the pantry. I won’t hold it against her for being a [...]
March 15, 2010
Review – Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life
If you are looking for an audio book to make you laugh, this is not it. In fact, many times I thought to myself how not funny Steve Martin’s early jokes were. If you want to laugh, you’re better off with an actual performance recording. However, one of the things that makes this book interesting [...]
March 13, 2010
Review – The Professor and the Madman
For the entire first part of this book I was flooded over and over by words. Words I’d forgotten, words whose definition I took for granted, and words who sneak up and smack you in the head. How do you define art? Pause for a moment and try to come up with something on your [...]
March 7, 2010
Review – Government Girl
This book too me forever to finish. Maybe it was that it was an Advance Reader Copy (ARC) and I owned it, I’m not sure. Usually the deadline of a library helps me get a book moving along if it’s feeling a bit like work. Either way, there were a thousand other things that interested [...]
March 2, 2010
Review – The World to Come
I love books that take a real life event and spin a fantastic story around it. The World to Come is like a dream, and the book itself very much mimicked a dream. Some parts were lucid, others are confused and scattered. The plot weaves among characters, and I occasionally struggled with the sections highlighting characters I [...]
