The Rook, by Daniel O’Malley
I first heard about this book all the way back in January, at which time I said, “I really liked The Rook‘s premise, which involves a woman who has lost all of her memories pretending to be… herself, with all her memories. What. I want this book to be all crazy Inception or Before I … Read more
You’re Not Doing It Right, by Michael Ian Black
Let me just say right away that this book was really not what I expected, and thus I was not a huge fan. I was expecting something like Bossypants or Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (which I conveniently talked about last week) or anything by David Sedaris — humorous essays, a few good chuckles, … Read more
End of the Semester!
Right, so, I meant to talk about being a librarian a bit more throughout the semester, but it turns out that on a day-to-day basis it’s not terribly interesting — I mean, it interests me greatly but not everyone is going to think that the vast disparity between a search for “escapism” and a search … Read more
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), by Mindy Kaling
So, true story, I actually read this book nearly three months ago. I grabbed the audiobook, read delightfully by Ms. Kaling, and took it with me on a relatively short but very boring road trip to Tallahassee. But near the end Kaling skipped past a chapter of photos since, you know, audio, and I felt … Read more
The Unwritten Vol. 5, by Mike Carey and Peter Gross
Every time I get a new trade of The Unwritten, I try to leave it sitting on my table for a couple days so that I can at least seem like a patient person. But a certain husband of mine saw it waiting for me, snatched it up, and read it first like a MEANIE. … Read more
Musing Mondays — Distractions
Today’s Musing Mondays question is… “Other than working at a job, what is your biggest interruption to reading? What takes you away from your book(s)?” Those jobs, always getting in the way! But it’s true, I do sometimes find myself not reading even when I’m not getting paid to do other things… Usually the distraction … Read more
Zone One, by Colson Whitehead
So I’m in a book club with a bunch of college friends, and one of them was like, “Hey, you guys ever read Zone One?” And I was like, “No, but you should make it your pick so that I have a reason to read it! ZOMBIES FTW!” And then another clubber, a friend whose … Read more
Booking Through Thursday — Eternity
Today’s Booking Through Thursday question asks… “What book took you the longest to read, and do you feel it was the content or just the length that made it so?” Hmm. If we’re talking in terms of when I picked it up for the first time and when I put it down for the last … Read more
The Puzzler’s Dilemma, by Derrick Niederman
It always comes as a surprise to me when I’m one of the first people to acknowledge the existence of a book on GoodReads, because I so often don’t read things until years after they’re published, and even when I pick books off the cataloging/processing line, like this one, they tend to be things that … Read more
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