Listen, this is a very good book. It just wasn’t the droid I was looking for. Well, more accurately it was the droid I was looking for, but he brought along his annoying protocol droid buddy who bothered me with information about himself (wow, I think I just made a reference that equates a book about George Lucas to C-3PO… I am such a nerd). After reading the great reviews of this book by emmalita and narfna, I quickly added it to my library waitlist. […]
There was an incident, it was curious (and also at night) and then things really started to get interesting.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon, narrated by Jeff Woodman
One of the benefits of dragooning your friends into doing the Cannonball Read with you is that they are another great source of book recommendations. I’m not sure when exactly Ale suggested The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time to me, but I have a feeling it was sometime around when she read Marcelo in the Real World last year. Both books feature protagonists with Asperger’s Syndrome, and Ale suggests Marcelo to people who enjoyed Curious Incident. Audible did me a favor […]
Cannonball Book Club Reads Science Fiction – Book Announcement!
Our Cannonballers have made their voices heard, and we will be reading Doomsday Book by Connie Willis for our June 1st Book Club Reads Science Fiction. From the first twenty-four hours of the vote this book has been in the lead, but books two and three; Lagoon by Nnedi Okarafor and The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin gave chase. I’m adding all three to my to read list, and hope that if your choice wasn’t our final choice, that you’ll make the time to […]
“Love wants the best for others. Attachment takes hostages.”
Last year I double cannonballed with the second Inspector Gamache book, A Fatal Grace. It grew naturally from its predecessor, Still Life, and expanded the universe of the Sûreté du Québec and the various residents of Three Pines and its surrounding area in the Eastern Townships. Having decided that I enjoy consuming these books in the time of year in which they are set, I knew that I would be listening to The Cruelest Month this April. I can happily report I’m as happy with […]
Sometimes a good book just doesn’t do it for you.
I came to All About Love: New Visions via The Shared Shelf group over on Goodreads (its Emma Watson’s Feminist book club). I didn’t read the February selection, but I thought this one, the March selection, sounded like a good idea. Written in 1999, All About Love is a series of interconnected non-fiction essays by bell hooks where she endeavors to explain how our everyday understandings of giving and receiving love often fail us. I’ll admit, I was left cold in the first few chapters. […]
Tessa Dare Delivers Funny and Sexy
I knew from my previous outings with Ms. Dare that her Castles Ever After series is all about the quirky and fanciful. The conceit of these novels is that a generous benefactor, the Earl of Lynforth, has bequeathed a series of castles – not just properties – to his nieces and goddaughters, is in and of itself a bit kooky. Book two in the series introduces us to Miss Clio Whitmore, inheritor of Twill Castle. She has also been engaged to Piers Brandon, now Marquess […]
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