Review: Fairy Hunters Ink. — Sheila A. Dane

Rose Csorba beautifully illustrated this journal-of-sorts about a group of Fairy Hunters. Ashley and narrator Laura, aided by their friends Big Rabbit and Turtle, find the fairies that exist in every day things. Pocket Fairies, Teacup Fairies, Sock Fairies, and others have their own brief story and the story of their capture. The idea that [...]

Review: Ant Farm — Simon Rich

Shop Indie Bookstores Ant Farm is described by Jon Stewart as “Hilarious.” I would say that term applies to some parts of it. Overall though, I’d call it “Amusing.” Simon Rich (a former Harvard Lampoon president) wrote this comical collection of short stories. Actually, I’m not sure if these are considered short stories. I consider [...]

Review: Magical Thinking — Augusten Burroughs

Shop Indie Bookstores After reading Swallows of Kabul and then Lucky back-to-back, I needed something a little less heavy to read. I decided I would try Magical Thinking on for size. USA Today calls it “compelling” and “screamingly funny.” I was hoping it would deliver. The first page defines Magical Thinking as “A schizotypal personality [...]

Review: One for the Money — Janet Evanovich

Shop Indie Bookstores The first in the ever-growing Stephanie Plum Series by Janet Evanovich, One for the Money, introduces us to Stephanie Plum. She is a stereotypical, Italian Jersey Girl who was working as a buyer for a ladies underwear company when she lost her job. Broke and with nowhere else to go, she moves [...]

Review: The Lovely Bones — the movie

The Lovely Bones is a haunting novel. I was excited to see that it had been made into a movie and curious what it would turn out to be. I reviewed Lovely Bones in 2008. I finally watched it (Thank You Netflix). It was a tiny bit different from the book, but not in a [...]

Review: Bloodsucking Fiends — Christopher Moore

Shop Indie Bookstores It’s time for a vampire book review. With all this attention focused on Twilight and the June 30th big release of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse movie, why not talk about some funny, grown up vampires? Christopher Moore’s Bloodsucking Fiends is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. (You may remember that [...]

Review: Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut

Shop Indie Bookstores I reviewed A Man Without Country on Friday. Having read that first, I went into reading Slaughterhouse-five with a sort of sense of where Vonnegut was at while writing it. It faded quickly though as I got wrapped up in the book. At first I was surprised by how many people I [...]

Dr. Seuss Book Sales

Border’s is running a sale on Dr. Seuss books now through 12/28. They are all Buy 2, Get 3rd free. Also, if you’re a Border’s Rewards member, the prices are knocked down a bit from the list price. I’m not sure if Borders does this every year, but I recall seeing this deal in a [...]

5 Favorite Horror Novels

Halloween always gets me thinking about my favorite horror/suspense novels. I don’t read them much anymore, but my pre-teen years were full of books like The Ripper and pre-Goosebumps RL Stine books (the Goosebumps books were so not scary!). Here are five of my favorites (The Thief of Always is young adult and I read [...]

Vampires Are So Trendy

Twilight is everywhere, in case you hadn’t noticed. Since I’m not a Young Adult, I tend to not read YA novels, but it seems that Twilight has overcome the generational gap. Because I have not read any of the books in the Twilight series, I can’t comment on how good they are. I do have [...]