When you recommend a book the first thing you do is explain what the book is about. I sometimes struggle to accurately describe a book without giving too much away while still capturing the plot. For today's diversion you can throw that all away. Today we will attempt to describe a book in the … [Read more]
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Another entry in my effort to read more classics. This one I read in installments that appeared in my inbox thanks to Dracula Daily. From their about page: Bram Stoker’s Dracula is an epistolary novel - it’s made up of letters, diaries, telegrams, newspaper clippings - and every part of it has a … [Read more]
The Wide, Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides
I've read so much about maritime adventures this year, this seemed like a fitting continuation. Hampton Sides describes the 3rd and final journey of Captain James Cook. Already widely celebrated - a hero, really - for his previous voyages, Sides describes how he ended up on this third journey, … [Read more]
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
This is a melancholy book that lingers in slow spaces of the story. It's not an action-packed dystopia--but it definitely is a dystopia. The story is set on an island (presumably a Japanese one) where our main character describes her life as a novelist. Her father, an ornithologist, and her … [Read more]
Monsters of Ohio by John Scalzi
Bingo Square: Middle (the book is set in the MIDwest) I really enjoyed this one! I honestly didn’t know too much about what to expect going into this but it was fun. Sometimes, when a book is super topical and contemporary, it can be frustrating because parts might already feel out of date but this … [Read more]
The Year of the Wind by Karina Pacheco Medrano
Not only have I given The Year of the Wind by Karina Pacheco Medrano the ol’ “college try,” I’ve given it a Masters and almost a Doctoral try. Needless to say, I really did try to read this book, but it is (in the spirit of one of the CBR Diversion – Describe a Book Badly): about a woman who goes on … [Read more]
Platform Decay by Martha Wells
Bingo Square: And (part of a series) I usually read these right when they come out but I realized when I did that with the seventh one that I would need to do a series reread before the next one because I was a bit lost and didn’t remember anyone. Thanks to my library’s Hoopla account, I listened … [Read more]
