Well, we’ve conveniently gotten rid of the two books written and recommended by women, and the only book written by anyone non-white. Of course everyone laughs and says that it was just, you know, how it happened. One person says that, well, there are three male judges and maybe books about the girls just don’t […]
I’m reading the book ‘Girls of Riyadh’, which is fine, it’s fun, it’s Gossip Girl: Saudi Arabia.
We have the love trials of the wealthy girls (though with less sex than in the Upper East Side), we have the unnamed narrator, we have the focus on the narrator’s use of the internet.
I am enjoying the […]
I’m so tired lately that I wish — for once — that I took more photos, so I could put them up in lieu of content.
I will instead link to a short story I like, by James Alan Gardner, Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream.
I read one of the books […]
The library has the new Jeanette Winterson book, even though it isn’t yet published in Canada. I am entirely unclear about why they bothered to go and find it from the UK, but I don’t care so much, because I get to go read it this weekend. Oddly, they seem to have placed it in […]
I think I am finally on the mend, after what must have been both a flu AND a cold, and after several mugs of ginger tea, which settles the stomach even as it burns off the inside of my mouth.
And so I bring a mini book review.
Bryce Courtenay, Sylvia. Completely atrocious. Mostly I enjoy his […]
I just read a book about Nefertiti and her sister, along the lines of Margaret George’s biographical fiction (is there a better name for this? I am too lazy to look it up). And I realised how much I enjoy this genre, especially about people I don’t know much about. Help me find some other […]
I just finished Un Lun Dun, which strikes me as The Phantom Tollbooth meets London Below. This isn’t a negative — I enjoyed both those books.
The book follows the Shwazzy (choisi), Zanna, and her friend, Deeba, as they go into unLondon, an abcity for London. (Other ones include Parisn’t, Lost Angeles, Baghdon’t.) The Shwazzy […]
I saw a book I thought was called ‘Russian Jew Cooks in Peru’. Sadly, there is an extra word in the actual title; I think mine is much more fun.
So, I had plans to go to the Harry Potter party. And then I read, the store manager is dressing up as Voldemort, and they will be doing reenactments of battle scenes (no idea which ones), and I admit, I’m a little scared. Even more so when they say the party will start at 8, […]
My mother does not read the Harry Potter books. She does watch the movies, so she’s now up to Order of the Phoenix (Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge was phenomenal, incidentally, and entirely worth the movie, though other than the ending — from the time Harry et al get to the Ministry — I thought […]