So this week, having finished A Tale of Two Cities:
I have now moved on to Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn, thereby reducing the “twenty-one people who haven’t read it” to twenty.
Teaser Tuesday 12/16/2014: “Gone Girl
Author: James Viscosi
Not A Review Of “Happy Valley”
As some readers may recall, about a year ago we discovered “Breaking Bad” on Netflix, in which seemingly mild-mannered chemistry teacher Walter White transforms himself into feared crystal meth lord “Heisenberg”, and my wife promptly became addicted to it. (The show, not crystal meth.) After we ran out of “Breaking Bad” episodes, my wife charged me with finding another show that was just (or at least, almost) as good. That search did not go well … until “Happy Valley” came along:
Teaser Tuesday 11/25/2014: “A Tale of Two Cities”
It was the best of times … it was the worst of times … it was time to read A Tale of Two Cities, that Dickensian classic, which I somehow never picked up until it appeared for free on the BookBub mailing list.
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Not A Review Of “Just Like Heaven”
So having in recent weeks subjected my wife to “Snowpiercer” (“What kind of train has an aquarium and a nightclub in it?”) and “Ender’s Game” (“All I’ve figured out so far is it’s a bunch of kids playing video games.”), I decided we needed something she might actually pay attention to. Enter “Just Like Heaven“, AKA the romantic comedy where the ghost of Tracy Flick meets the Incredible Hulk, with an assist from Napoleon Dynamite. Or something like that.
Teaser Tuesday 11/4/2014: “Lore of The Witch World”
So this week, having ditched two other free books — one just for being poorly written, another for having a Too Dumb To Live protagonist (seriously, after the second or third time you ignore explicit instructions to stay on the path and not to talk to the monsters, you deserve whatever you get) — I’ve picked up Lore of the Witch World, an anthology of stories plus a novelette by Andre Norton.
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Wordless Walking Dead Wednesday: Tainted Meat
Teaser Tuesday 10/28/2014: “The Sekhmet Bed”
So at the moment I’m reading The Sekhmet Bed, by Lavender Ironside, which may or may not be a pseudonym, but is an Awesome McCoolname nevertheless.
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Wordless “Walking Dead” Wednesday
And You Thought They All Went Across The Ocean In White Ships
Teaser (And Review!) Tuesday 10/7/2014
Well, one review anyway, at flayrah.com, from April 2014, of Dragon Stones:
Viscosity 