Oh, help, I thought, less than a third of the way into this book, I’m reading poetry. It was not a complaint; far from it. Before All the World is poetry as it should be: deliberate while feeling casual, a game with words that is at once playful and deadly serious (sometimes by turns, sometimes […]
Happy Doll, the former cop, is trying to eke out a living as a private detective. The business hasn’t been great, so he’s anxious to meet his new client. When the young woman, Mary, walks in the door, she brings Happy’s past along. She’s the daughter of a woman, Ines, whom Happy had loved deeply […]
Betty White’s Pearls of Wisdom almost seems intrusive to read, as it is about the personal and intimate relationship the author and her family had with Betty, and the twelve pearls of wisdom are stories, humanitarian acts, and personality traits that may or may not have been known about Betty in her personal life. Each […]
After her wealthy husband suddenly left her, Alyssa Macallan was drowning her sorrows in a hotel bar. She picked the spot specifically because no one in her social circles would ever set foot in a place like that. But just when she needed a friend most, one appeared. Seeming to also have problems she wanted […]
Eric Ross and his two daughters are on the run, living out of motels as they try to escape their secrets. Eric comes across an ad for a caretaker for the Masson House, which is known to the locals as The Spite House because Peter Masson built it just to spite those around him. All […]
If you really like Elsa Beskow’s books, you might not like this one, Around the Year, as much. I don’t like it. It’s not as good as the others. It’s all about poetry, but if you like poetry you will probably love it because it seems so poetic. It’s poems about the months of the […]
Our Incredible Library Book (and the Wonderful Journeys It Took) has a somewhat interesting premise, but unfortunately, the execution is somewhat lacking. The rhymes are the main point of it and they are mediocre. The storyline follows a library book and the people who borrow it, detailing how where and how they read it and […]
Stitch Head Book 2: The Pirate’s Eye is the second one in the series. Stitch Head and his friends found a letter saying that the Professor should enter a professing contest and then the professor left the Castle to enter the contest. While they were playing pirates, they found a second letter saying that Professor […]
Life Lessons from a UFO Catcher , an autobiographical manga by Kenny Loui, was such a creative, lighthearted read. Based on Loui’s personal experiences, he bestows life lessons and wisdom that he has gleaned through a fun, colorful manga. The story’s main character, Kenny Loui, is a self-proclaimed “UFO catcher” alongside his role as a […]
