Comments on: Review: Ground Up, Michael Idov

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:01:19 +0000

OMG. SHUT UP! That 99 Problems list is The. Best. Thing. Ever.
Must share. Thank you thank you thank you!

By: Care

Care — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:29:16 +0000

And how were all those awesome gifts received? I so want to know.

By: litlove

litlove — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:57:41 +0000

I think I’d really like this book and must look out for it. Not that I have ever lived in New York, but I do like novels that really get their sense of place right. And I wanted to add about Habibi that I’d just read a review of it at Stefanie’s blog (So Many Books) and she felt very much the same as you – not a patch on Blankets. Plus, I know JUST what you mean about buying those extra ‘even better’ gifts. I almost have to tie my hands together every year about this time!

By: Aarti

Aarti — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:33:27 +0000

So I am not sure where your review of Habibi went, but I wanted to say YES to your thoughts on super-rapey-ness in works of fiction being used just to show a) one character’s cruelty or b) another character’s trials and tribulations. Ugh. Use a different trope, please.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:20:35 +0000

In reply to zibilee. *cracks up* That is an excellent story, and if I were home all through Christmas season, instead of just getting home before the day of, I would totally do that. I have a few presents I am just painfully excited about. Merry, merry Christmas to you! I hope you have a wonderful holiday because I think you are really swell!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:19:33 +0000

In reply to rhapsodyinbooks.

Ummmm, well, without seeing your particular king cake I can’t say. I don’t see any reason why a Tucson bakery shouldn’t make just as yummy a king cake as a Lafayette one! What sorts do you have? Do they have babies in, and the appropriate colors of icing? More importantly, why does Tucson have king cake and New York City doesn’t? Unfair!

(Social Sister made me a king cake when I was home at Thanksgiving and it was hella yummy.)

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:18:28 +0000

In reply to Mumsy. Actually I bet you would too! Should've kept it checked out from the library so you could read it. *sigh* Arts Market sounds nice. I miss it.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:17:43 +0000

In reply to Jodie. Oh, a tailgate is this really brilliant kind of party you have the day of a sports event (it would be American football in my case). The origin of the word is that the parties would be based and around the open tailgate of a truck or car. But in my case we would have a smallish canopy, and a bunch of chairs, and we would all sit around and visit and drink beer, and Captain Hammer would grill, and we would eat stuff and be excited about the game. It would be amazing. I can't afford to do it this year either! And mostly I have had sensible people with me to talk me down when the urge strikes.

By: zibilee

zibilee — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:36:01 +0000

I always do the Christmas gift thing too! I actually gave my husband his present already because I was so excited about it, and wanted to make sure that if he didn’t like it, I wasn’t stuck with nothing good on the day of. So I bought him another, when he loved and exclaimed over the first one! I second guess my gifts every year.

Also, this book sounds wonderful! I love snide reads, and when they are done right, there is nothing else like them.

Very wonderful review, and Merry Christmas, my friend!

By: rhapsodyinbooks

rhapsodyinbooks — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:20:08 +0000

Oh yes, yes! SO can relate to the perils of Christmas shopping early, and then thinking up or finding New Improved Better Ideas for gifts! Gaaaaah!!!!!! And King Cake! Oh yes, yes! (although we can even get them in Tucson, which is especially bizarre, but do king cakes count if they’re not from LA?)