As told by a short synopsis and my Kindle notes while reading them. Stealing Jason Wilde by Dee Ernst – Here we have a book about four grown women who kind-of-sort-of kidnap an actor, only not really, while on vacation. Wilde passes out in their car and they have to Weekend at Bernie’s him into their beach house, and his stupid manager tells him to stay hidden and calls the FBI, and all of these women somehow make the bad decision to play along? And […]
“Look at this progressive-ass devil. Literally.”
That title is from my Kindle notes as I was reading this story, in response to the main character, who is supposedly the devil, who says things like “Homosexuality is not flammable. You can’t burn by it alone.”, and therefore makes him approximately 9000% less devilish than many humans I know. I wasn’t sure what to make of the synopsis Net Galley provided for this book before I received it; “Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984: the year a heat wave scorched […]
Probably Book 1 of a Series, TBC
This is Joe Ide’s debut novel, and if – like the book copy says – it’s “inspired by his early experiences,” then I’m guessing his life is about a thousand times more eventful than mine. It’s all for the good though, since it helped him create this book. IQ is the nickname of private investigator Isaiah Quintabe, who – I have no doubt- we’ll be seeing in future installments of Ide’s work. Isaiah is a big picture, small detail man, much in the vein of […]
I may not judge a book by its cover, but I apparently judge it by a lot of other things
A lot of times, when I’m scrolling through the books that NetGalley has chosen to send me, I end up passing by titles that, like this review’s book, have “:A Novel” as part of their title. Having too numerously been burned by capital N ‘Novels:’ books that tend to take themselves far more seriously than they deserve as they retread familiar ground in the least novel of ways, & spout trope after trope and leaving me growly and unsatisfied, has obviously imparted some bias. I […]
Pro-bookworm propaganda
You know I’m all about anything that makes reading seem like the enjoyable pastime we all know it truly is, so Carmen Oliver’s Bears Make the Best Reading Buddies hits my niche dead on. Adelaide has no need for her teacher to assign her a reading buddy; She has brought her own – a bear. Her bear likes to help her pick out good books to read, is a great listener, and curls up to create a comfy space for her to read in. Adelaide’s […]
“Welcome to the trip, man…”
One of the most contradictory elements of my reading life is my love for comics and my inability to calmly and peacefully wait for the next issue of said comics. Their episodic nature is frustrating to my inherent need to binge-read an entire story-line. For example, I subscribe to a favorite author’s entire series (Gail Simone’s recent run on Batgirl, for example), then let them pile up till I have the complete story, and read them all at once. I don’t have a problem (usually, […]
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