Quick Thoughts: Armada has a lot of the things I loved about Ready Player One. There is a huge focus on gamers and gamer life, but set in the near future that feels like now, instead of a vastly different, but conceivable, future. There is still a huge focus on 80s pop-culture, but I think it is […]
Sunday’s In Bed With… Prudence and Fake ID
It has been a while. It has been so long, I’m torn between sharing a long update and just jumping right back in. It’s like I forgot how to do this. Some of you may know that I began teaching high school English this year. It has been awesome, but also exhausting and overwhelming. When […]
Death Comes to Pemberly by P.D. James
Quick Review, Kim-style: Last summer, I read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for the first time. It blew me away, as it was funny and charming and wonderful. Then I heard about Death Comes to Pemberly by P.D. James. I was nervous because it was a sequel not written by Austen and the story revolved around a murder. However, […]
Funny in Farsi by Faroozeh Dumas
Thoughts: This summer I took a class called Cross-Cultural Education. As part of this class, we were assigned small group literature circles where we had to read a book about another culture. My group chose Funny In Farsi by Faroozeh Dumas. I don’t think any of those in my group expected to enjoy assigned reading this much. […]
Review: Curtsies &Conspiracies by Gail Carriger
Thoughts: Curtsies & Conspiracies is the second book in Gail Carriger’s Finishing School series. I was lukewarm on book one, Etiquette & Espionage, but curious about Curtsies & Conspiracies. I listened to the audio back in May, and while I really enjoyed it, I don’t have that much to say about it. The plot was fantastic. […]
Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
Thoughts: I loved Shadow and Bone and Siege and Storm, and Ruin and Rising has been one of my most anticipated titles of the year. It did not disappoint. Everything that I love about the first two books is there, but somehow, I think, Ruin and Rising is even better. I will mark major spoilers, […]
Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris
Thoughts: If you’ve read Davis Sedaris before, then you’ll know what to expect from Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls. It is another collection of personal essays and anecdotes that are as funny as they are strange and dark. Most of the essays were new for me, but there were a handful that I had heard […]
Fiction: Writing the Outcast (Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2010)
Quick review for a quick listen: When I lived in LA, my favorite weekend of the whole year was the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. It is what I miss most about LA. I always loved the panels-authors are often funny, quirky people, and, at LATFOB, there were always insightful comments about literature and […]
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Thoughts: I watched The Dresden Files years ago when it was a TV show, and it has been a few years since I read the first book in the series, Storm Front. I shouldn’t have waited so long to continue this series. I love detective stories and I love magic. This series combines the two in a way […]
Forgive Me Leonard Peacock, by Matthew Quick
Thoughts: I listened to this audiobook back in November, after hearing to Matthew Quick speak at the National Book Festival. I knew going in that the narrator was going to be angry, but I did not expect how intense this story was. Part of the reason that I’ve waited so long to write my review […]
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