I wouldn’t call myself a huge David Spade fan (does anyone?) but I liked Just Shoot Me, and movies like The Benchwarmers and Joe Dirt are always fun. And then there’s Tommy Boy. My husband and I love Tommy Boy (LOVE TOMMY BOY), and while Chris Farley gets all the laughs, he couldn’t do it without Spade as his straight man. “FYI, this book is not that serious. This is meant to be read when super bored, then forgotten fifteen minutes later. It could be read cover-to-cover during one medium-to-severe […]
Strangeness with Magic, Dragons, and a Quarkbeast
I read Jasper Fford’s Tuesday Next series, and I liked it for a while. I got bored after about book 4. So when I saw a YA fantasy novel by the same author, I wanted to try it out. The Last Dragonslayer was mostly what I expected, and also a little not. What defines Fford’s writing for me is a sense of slightly off-kilter in an otherwise normal story, and that is totally here. The normal is as follows: 15 year old indentured servant Jennifer […]
I Don’t Remember Much About It
(This is a review of the audio version) I think I would have enjoyed this better in written form, because I had a hard time following along and staying interested to the audio version. Essays especially I think lend themselves well to paper (or electronic) versions because they can be read in chunks; the audio version for me meant stopping it a lot right in the middle, and not being able to listen again until I’d forgotten what I already heard. That said, what I […]
Low on the Lumberjane Scale
I have really liked the Lumberjanes series so far, but I gotta say number 5 was a little bit of a let-down. The basic storyline follows 5 friends and their camp counsellor through a summer of camp sponsored by a vaguely scout-like organization, the eponymous Lumberjanes. Except of course that this is not your typical scouting group, and not your typical summer camp. Strange events and encounters of the supernatural variety will happen, and the camp and its director are most certainly involved somehow. Each […]
I should let my kid pick more often – Review #3
Yeah baby – up to three reviews! I’m reviewing this book the same day I finished reading it, which means that Satan is skating to work. I was in the library with my four year old and told her to pick a book for me to read. She pointed out this one: I like super heroes, so I went with it. It took me a month to start reading it because anxiety sucks a fat one but once I did start I was pleasantly […]
Raw and honest
This was not a funny book. Now, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t good — Cho’s a good writer and she bares a lot of her soul here — but it’s definitely not the ball of laughs I was expecting from a comedian’s memoir. “We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don’t end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don’t want it, because by then it is too late.” Cho has endured a […]
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