Yes, yes, I finally caved and read this. I have been delaying gratification for quite a while, but I just couldn’t resist the siren call of this book anymore. It has been sitting so alluringly on my bookshelf. Last night I was reading The Sixteen Pleasures and suddenly it became clear to me that if I went another second without reading Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me, my brain would explode. (Nothing against The Sixteen Pleasures, which I’m enjoying.) I am beginning to entertain the notion that my great dislike of everything else I’ve been reading is all to do with…
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My God, this book was sad. It was so, so, so sad. It was just so unrelentingly sad. Even when she wasn’t particularly talking about anything sad, still it was incredibly sad. I cried a lot, especially at the end. And I’ve never even had a baby! Imagine if I had had a baby and I read this book, which is Elizabeth McCracken’s memoir about how her baby was stillborn. That would have been way much even sadder. However, it was well-written and interesting. And it had lots of good bits, and Elizabeth McCracken endeared herself to me forever and…
2 CommentsI read about In the Woods on Trish’s blog as well as the other Jenny Claire’s, and it sounded very intriguing, and it was. In the Woods is a twisty murder mystery – lots of interesting detail and inexplicable things. Detective Rob Ryan, who as a child was one of three children that disappeared in a case that was never solved, and the only one who returned, gets put on to solving the murder of a child in the very same forest where he vanished as a kid. It was a really good book. I couldn’t quit reading it, and…
6 CommentsI’ve been such a schizophrenic reader lately. I’ve not gotten any books out of the library for the past several weeks, because I’ve been reading Harry Potter and Martin Millar, and planning to get started on Shakespeare. However, the last time I went through reading all the book blogs I read, there were so many books that appealed to me. And I wrote them all down but I was all on board with finishing up my Harry Potter & Shakespeare reading before carrying on to new things. Ah, and then Obama got elected, and I got an unexpected check from…
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