Yummy
I almost forgot I’d checked Yummy out from the library – that’s what happens when I hand a book to Elly before I’ve had a chance to read it… another Cybils shortlist graphic novel and this one is excellent. So sad – Robert Sandifer, sad sad sad. Using a well drawn (and written) graphic novel to tell the story is such a great idea. Love. All kids (and adults) should read it.
Whaley Boy Grey
Tarrant is doing that thing she does… as she looked out the window at my Prius (whose name is ‘Whaley Boy’)….
Whaley Boy Grey
Mist adds the white of barnacles
Will a sandwich order appear?
Don’t forget the mustard
The Absolute Value of -1
Aye yi yi. The Absolute Value of -1 is what happens when you don’t find out what a book is about before you add it to your reserve list after seeing it mentioned on a blog. I should stop doing that.
Then again, if I had looked at the Amazon reviews, I wouldn’t have gotten much help – pretty much everyone loves it and nobody bothers to talk about the Suzanne/Simon problem. And oh boy was that a problem.
I don’t get it. Don’t find it believable, not based on the stories told by Lily, Noah, or Simon. Ditch that whole part and would Simon have been the same guy – yea, I think he would have been, which is why I don’t find the Suzanne/Simon attraction believable. The rest of the book (which is really most of it) is excellent.
But dude, Suzanne/Simon – the relationship… told in that way, too weird and just not right. Not at all right. Weird. Weird. Weird.
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Caleb’s Crossing
Oh. I almost forgot – I read Caleb’s Crossing for the BlogHer Book Club. I liked it but not as much as I’ve liked some of her other books… I also got to gripe about the patriarchy so that’s cool. You can never grip about the patriarchy too often, can you?
A Blue So Dark
I saw A Blue So Dark mentioned on a blog (of course I can’t remember which one) and decided to grab it. Oy. Sad, sad, sad. Depressing. Schizophrenia is such a horribly difficult disease. I loved Aura and her mom and her grandmother. All the characters really – even the jerk of a father who walked out. Good, sad, DARK, book. (And yes, #YASaves)
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
We love to listen to The Ladies #1 Detective Agency books on audio – and the timing of BlogHer Food ’11 and the latest book in the series, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party was perfect. Until we hit the mountains of NC – when the disc started to skip.
TW cleaned the disk as best she could and put it in again – still skipping a little but we kept trying to listen to it until it skipped a lot. TW tried to clean the disk again but it was no use. We had to give up close to the end of the second to last disk. It was very sad.
When we got home, I used one of those disk cleaner thingies to clean all of the disks and kept my fingers crossed as we tried again. It worked! Well it still skipped a little on the last disk but not enough to worry about – and we made it all of the way through.
Thank goodness because the marriage of Grace and Phuti is important and we needed to know what happened to the shoes… and the tiny white van… and the horrible person who harmed the good Botswana cattle!
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Tooth & Claw
Liz Henry has been recommending Tooth & Claw to me for AGES. I didn’t ignore her, exactly. I just don’t really like books about dragons (all you Ann McAffrey fans can feel free to yell at me now, I’m used to it.)
When she recommended it again last month, I decided to go ahead and give it a try.
I read a chapter and put it down. I don’t like dragon books.
I read another chapter and put it down. Nope, still don’t like dragon books.
I read a few more chapters and put it down. Yawn… dragon books.
I finished it last night and while I still don’t like dragon books, I found myself chuckling through the last half of the book. The dragons grew on me. Or maybe it was the narrator. The proposals and deaths and confessions – funny. Very funny.
Victorian romance-y thing but with dragons. Heh. OK I’m chuckling again.
No I’m not PCSing But I Wish I Was
Way back in 2008, when we realized we were going to have to move to Chicagoland, I registered with AHRN just to get some idea of housing prices in the far north suburbs. Most of those listings were for suburbs just a wee bit too far north but it was interesting to look at them and being able to access that information was useful.
Today, I got an email from AHRN asking if I was preparing to PCS – and I laughed out loud. Of course. If I really was in the military, or still partnered with someone in the military, I would be preparing to PCS. So brilliant of them to send that kind of a message to those who had used their services at exactly the right time.
Brilliant.
I just wish it WAS time to PCS.
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The Dry Grass of August
TW read The Dry Grass of August last week and said it was excellent… I don’t always listen to her when she says these things but for some reason… I had a good feeling about this book. I’m damn glad I read it – excellent book. Southern family … with a black maid… in the 50’s. You know horrible things are going to happen, and they do, but most of the characters are pretty darn likeable and real.
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