“He only wanted to live quietly, waiting for death to find his address.” Ferdinand is THE grumpy old man. His life has been a country song: wife left him, dog died, etc. What he doesn’t expect is a precocious young girl to move in upstairs and decide to make him her new project. She wants him to be happy and to live a better life (no easy feat mind you) and sets out to make it so, starting with getting him to clean his apartment! […]
A series to skip
A book with a very interesting plot setup and potential to go in an interesting direction could have been great… However, it quickly devolved into needing a less than stellar romance plot as do most of the worst in this genre. The premise behind this series is that there are humans which serve to ferry dead souls to the next world. Much like crossing the River Styx, but you know, updated! They have necklaces not boats… In order to feel better about their role in […]
This will look good on my trophy necklace.
“The Secretary of Defense stood at the front of the room giving the most important PowerPoint presentation in human history. […] The fate of all mankind rested on the decisions that would be made in this room in the next few minutes, so of course PowerPoint wasn’t working. […] ‘It doesn’t really matter which dimension you’re in Mr. President, Windows still does that. There’s even one Earth where Bill Gates’s cyborg head is God Emperor and they’re still forced to use Vista.’ ” In a […]