“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx
This has been going around the community over at LibraryThing, so I finally decided to give it a go.
You’re Les Miserables!
by Victor Hugo
One of the best known people in your community, you have become something of a phenomenon. People have sung about you, danced in your honor, created all manner of art in your name. [...]
Unsatisfying books weekend, part two:
Remainder by Tom McCarthy is easily one of the strangest books I’ve ever read. Our unnamed protagonist has been the victim of some sort of accident — his £8.5 million settlement prevents him from sharing the details with us, but we do learn that it involves something falling from the sky [...]
Blech. I had a pretty unsatisfying weekend — well, as far as books go, at least.
I started off with If I Am Missing Or Dead: A Sister’s Story of Love, Murder and Liberation by Janine Latus. From the title and the inside jacket information, I assumed that this book would focus on events surrounding the [...]
I felt like some sort of bandwagon-jumper or groupie or something when I requested it from the library, but Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris was pretty good. I figured it would be, though, after my boss told me he polished off the first six books over a three-day weekend. So after waiting at least [...]
I started and finished Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki last night. I really, really wanted to like this book. I picked it up at the store because the blurb on the back cover sounded intriguing, but the content of the book was not what I expected at all. The story focuses mainly on Shona, the [...]
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