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Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
The Bloggess is FUNNY and I want to be her when I grow up because I NEED A GIANT METAL CHICKEN. I’ve been saying this for months and I still don’t have a GIANT METAL CHICKEN. Reading Let’s Pretend This Never Happened just reminded me that I still DO NOT HAVE A GIANT METAL CHICKEN and this is wrong. Very wrong.
Someday I will have a Beyonce’ of my own. As god as my witness, I will have that GIANT METAL CHICKEN.
Also, I find it interesting that TW and I and RJ and I found different pieces of this book funny. While they roared and guffawed in some places, I barely chuckled. When I was laughing out loud, they were not. Proof that not all of Jenny Lawson’s writing is meant for all people. Or that we’re all fucked up in completely different ways. Whatever. Funny stuff, (and I only got stabby a couple of times when the timing of events was shifted around in not the quite right way.)
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The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
Man I love the Ladies #1 Detective Agency series. I particularly love it on audio. When we finish listening to a book, it’s just no fun to ride in the car and it takes ages ‘til we get used to NOT listening to the stories of the Botswana gang.
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection was exceptionally good – because a visitor arrives. A visitor from far away. FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC storyline.
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Magical Mischief
Magical Mischief was a cute middle grade fantasy – about a magic bookstore. Or actually, a bookstore where magic resided – and caused all sorts of problems. We’re left hanging at the end – how do you actually MOVE magic from one place to another, particularly if it does not want to go… and I suspect the magic will not want to go.
The Dreamer
I really liked The Dreamer. I liked the way the author inserted strong questions pulled from the story being told – very Neruda-like. Inclusion of some of Neruda’s poems at the end was a must – and greatly appreciated since I was wondering where I might find Neruda poetry on my shelf at 11pm when I finished this book, last night.
This is a very, very nice way to introduce young readers to Pablo Neruda.
Huntress
I really liked Huntress. The only problem was that I kept wondering what the heck Ash was about. I mean I remembered that it had lesbians in it. And that it was a Cinderella story. But other than that – I couldn’t remember a darn thing. TW kept saying, “just forget it’s a prequel” and I tried but it wasn’t easy.
And when I got to the end of Huntress, I looked up Ash and remembered it all. I should have looked up Ash before I started Huntress and saved myself the annoyance. Because this book was better than Ash. Much better. A whole lot happened at the end and that’s really the only thing I might have changed – I mean a visit to a unicorn really deserves its own book, or certainly more than just a few pages.