No reason other than my Borders is going out of business, and I like you guys.
This, for me, is one of the books that has both. I didn’t expect to like it at all, and I was totally blown away. I convinced the girls in my book club to read this for our book this [...]
The Book: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, by Hunter S. Thompson
The Story: Thompson and his Samoan attorney have, “two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, [...]
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Nothing gets me quite like a good dystopian book. I love them. The Giver was, I’m sure, the first book that I read that was set in another version of the future, and I was in love with it.
The thing that Lois Lowry did perfectly was give us just enough information [...]
Jason is a near and dear friend. He was the best man in our wedding. We love him. He is also a constant source of techy-jealousy in our house. When he got an iPhone before Shaun, Shaun was inconsolable for days. Seriously. This time, a little ol’ e-reader that is the device prompting envy. I [...]
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
-The Lorax, Dr. Seuss
The Book: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red, edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph. D.
The Story: This is the diary of a young woman living in Seattle around the turn of the century. She is courted by and then marries a rich oil tycoon named John Rimbauer. He is in the process [...]
You guys know I love me some Stephen King. I am reading Hearts in Atlantis right now and in the first little chapter came across this gem:
” ‘There are books full of great writing that don’t have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don’t be like the book-snobs who won’t do that. [...]
Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White
Oh my word how I loved this book. From the “Where’s papa going with that axe?” to the bittersweet ending. I probably read this book 4,000 times. And really, has there ever been a better first line?
Ahh, I could wax nostalgic about this all day. This is one of those books [...]
The Book: Mister Monday: The Keys to the Kingdom #1, by Garth Nix
The Story: The main character of this book, Arthur, suffers a should-be fatal asthma attack and is visited by some creepy dudes who babble off some crazy stuff and then give him a book and a “key” that looks like the minute hand [...]
The Book: Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
The Story: I probably don’t have to explain this one too much…
A crazy old guy decides to clone dinosaurs and put them on an island as an amusement park. They are all girl-dinos and they are pretty sure that they have control over the whole situation. A couple of [...]