Perhaps I was less enthusiastic about Weird Girl and What’s His name than badkittyuno because I didn’t have the X-Files connection to the character’s that my sister has. I was five when the series premiered and by the time I was old enough to appreciate it the show was winding down its run. However, I don’t think you need to be a sci-fi nerd to appreciate the characters and story line but it probably helps. What’s His Name, Rory, is an overweight, gay junior in […]
Outlander/Last of the Mohicans Remix
I stumbled on the MacKinnon’s Rangers trilogy by Pamela Clare while looking for Clare’s more contemporary work.Untamed (2008) is the second book in this series and involves the second MacKinnon brother–Morgan. Morgan and his two other brothers are Scottish, but grew up in the wilds of America after the Battle of Culloden decimated their clan. Now that Morgan’s older brother Ian is happily settled with a wife and child, Morgan is in charge of the Rangers: a separate, elite armed force set up to support the […]
Poor Fat Charlie
God, I love this book. A spiritual sequel to American Gods (similar modern-day mythology vibe, less conspiracy theory), Anansi Boys focuses on the spider trickster, Anansi, and his poor son, Fat Charlie. “That’s an Anansi story. ’Course, all stories are Anansi stories. Even this one.” Anansi is a god — a spider god, a trickster god. Anansi was also know as Mr. Nancy, and he was Fat Charlie’s mostly-absent, incredibly embarrassing father. When Mr. Nancy passes away, Fat Charlie finds out from an old family friend that his father […]
Say your prayers
You know that movie 50 First Dates, where Drew Barrymore lost her memory in a car accident, and Adam Sandler has to make her fall in love with him every day, reminding her of their history and generally recreating her whole world for her since the accident? Yeah, this book is just like that — only Adam Sandler might be trying to kill Drew Barrymore and she has no one she can really trust. “We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them […]
Good read with a stupid, stupid ending
Don’t you hate it when the last 50 pages of a novel derail the whole damn thing? Sabine Durrant had me 100% hooked on Under Your Skin almost up until the end — which infuriated me (particularly since I was reading it as an e-book and couldn’t fling it across the room). So Gaby Mortimer is a pretty successful woman: hosts a daytime talk show, married to an equally-successful businessman, has a little girl. She’s not quite happy — she kind of hates her job, her […]
Ever Vigilant.
When I first read this book and put it down I wasn’t sure how I could ever review it. After 6 months I’m still struggling. As I read The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood it became the first book and the last book. All other books are doomed to be the mere shadow of a breath compared to the roaring gasp that is A Handmaid’s Tale. So this will not so much be a review as it will be a quick summary followed by an […]