Episode 1-27: It Takes Two To Make A Thing Go Right SECOND CANNONBALL!! Wherein I review: 104. Missing You by Harlan Coben 105. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa 106. The Infinite Future by Tim Wirkus 107. We Are Anonymous by Parmy Olson Mswas was giving me the props early, but I finally crossed that second cannonball. We’re halfway there, halfway there, halfway there. Read my favorite Harlan Coben premise with my least favorite character leading the way. Finally read something sweet and short, without bloodshed. I read a book within a book within a book within a book […]
Episode 1-15: Clowns to the Left of Me, Vampire-Killing Lincoln to My Right
The Last American Vampire, The Diving Pool, ClownFellas: Tales of the Bozo Family, Shoot First by Seth Grahame-Smith, Yoko Ogawa, Carlton Mellick III, Stuart Woods
Episode 1-15: Clowns to the Left of Me, Vampire-Killing Lincoln to My Right Wherein I review: 49. The Last American Vampire by Seth-Grahame Smith 50. The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa 51. ClownFellas: Tales of the Bozo Family by Carlton Mellick III 52. Shoot First by Stuart Woods FIRST CANNONBALL DONE. For this run Stuart Woods was the Alpha and Omega. SGS goes all Forrest Gump with his vampire Henry Sturges. I get creeped the f out by one the best Japanese authors working today AGAIN. A man I’m convinced is three teen boys in a trenchcoat manages to clown his […]
Two books I don’t think I could even begin to build a bridge between
Diving Pool; Visitation Street by Yoko Ogawa; Ivy Pochoda
The Diving Pool – 2/5 stars Of course the issue with any collection of fiction where the works weren’t intended to be placed side by side is that you are left holding the reins as to how they might possibly be connected. All three of these “novellas” (they are definitely just longish short stories) have a spare detached narrator focused mostly on observing than acting. All three have the same kind of spare language that other of her works are known for. And while “The Housekeeper and the Professor” was a wonderful heartfelt delight, like “Revenge” this book is a […]
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10/11/2017 's CBR9 Review No:405 | 
| Tags: Ivy pochoda, The Diving Pool, Visitation Street, yoko ogawa | Category: Fiction | 0 Comments
Baseball and Brain Injuries!
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
This is a perfect little book for a high school student. It has a little bit of everything in it: a clear cut sense of right and wrong, exposure to a culture different from mainstream American (I am pretty mainstream American), precocious kids, and lovable and loving older people. It’s like a mix between Memento and A Beautiful Mind and a very one-sided version of Rashomon. Ok, not so much the last one, because instead, there’s not a lot of remembering going on. More so than anything, the tone of this novel reminded me of something by Nick Hornby more […]
3/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:104 |
There was no sign of sympathy or surprise
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
This is a strange little collection of stories Of course, I was immediately suspect because it was called “tales” but so be it. I read it anyway. In the first story, a woman is waiting to order two strawberry cakes in memorial of her dead son’s birthday twelve years ago. As she waits, little moments remind her of various things connected to his life and death. She waits but no one is actually helping any customers. In another story, the road has been covered in tomatoes as a result of a terrible car accident, but a woman is too focused […]
3/4/2017 's CBR9 Review No:73 |
Math and Baseball, what more could you want?
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
What a beautiful little story. I’m not sure who reviewed this one on here back for CBRV!, but whoever it was thank you. Enter an audible sale on Cassandra Campbell’s narration, and this was one of many snatched up. Ms. Campbell’s voice is wonderfully soothing for long car rides with the Little so we’ve been enjoying her quite a bit. The Housekeeper and the Professor is the story of, well, it’s right there in the title. Our narrator and housekeeper begin the tale explaining how she came to be working for this man. The professor is a brilliant mathematical mind, […]
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8/25/2016 's CBR8 Review No:47 |