I’ve been neglecting ye olde blog because I haven’t had the inspiration to write highly interesting things about the last books I managed to get through in 2005. So I take the easy way out with a quick bulleted list and a backdated entry so I can move into the new year without blogging baggage… [...]

Several years ago, while visiting my cousin Becky in St. Louis for some concert or another, she passed along some books that she thought my mom and I would enjoy. I come from a long line of book passers. One of them was Seabiscuit which was excellent. The second was a book I’d never heard [...]

The third Stephanie Plum book. Authors who write series that have numbers in the title make it easier for people to figure out which book they need to grab next. And somedays, that’s really all I ask of an author. I want to enjoy the book, not work too hard for it. Truthfully, it has [...]

I can see the movie now. That is all. Ok, I guess I could say a few more things. It is interesting to read a book knowing it is soon to be a movie and having seen a nice teaser trailer before reading it. It definitely colors my imaginative interpretation somewhat. Thinking of other big [...]

I selected this audiobook from my library on the basis of three things. First, that I have heard a lot of buzz about the new movie Shopgirl starring Steven Martin and based on his novel of the same name. Second, that I saw Steve Martin receive the Mark Twain Prize on PBS one evening last [...]

Sometimes ads on webpages are actually useful. Until I updated my Adblock extension in Firefox, I was still seeing some ads on the highly snarky Fugging It Up from time to time. One of these ads was for this book by Leah Stewart, The Myth of You and Me and the blurb was something about, [...]

The second book in the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich, Two for the Dough was a fun read. My friend Tracy was right, these books are laugh out loud funny. You know its a good book if the main character spends half the book visiting funeral homes with her crazy grandmother and I’m still [...]

In anticipation for the new movie coming out very soon, I have started reading The Chronicles of Narnia. I had never read them as a child. In chronicle form, as I have them, the stories are presented in the order that C.S. Lewis intended them to be read in, they are chronological to the storylines, [...]

I bought this right after seeing Serenity for the second time, to tide me over until seeing it for the third and fourth times. As a movie tie-in book goes, its quite good. The first 30 pages or so are a long interview with Joss Whedon about the making of the movie/creative process as well [...]

I started this book the day before Hurricane Katrina hit and I don’t know if it was some weird mental state about that event that I tied to the book or what, but I just could not get into or finish this book. But being one of those people who won’t abandon a book she [...]