Lori Duff Writes
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh is not like any other book. I guess it is a memoir of sorts, but that really doesn’t tell you much. The quality of the book itself is worth the price of admission.…
It’s Not That I’m Bitter . . .: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World by Dr. Gina Barreca It’s Not that I’m Bitter, by Dr. Gina Barreca, is a somewhat philosophical, somewhat autobiographical, definitely funny book about professional, well-educated women. Dr. Barreca, a professor of English…
Queen of Your Own Life: The Grown-Up Woman’s Guide to Claiming Happiness and Getting the Life You Deserve Queen of Your Own Life by Kathy Kinney and Cindy Ratzlaff is not the kind of book I usually read, in that it is a sort of self-help book, full of self-affirming mantras and feel-good platitudes.…
Forging of a Knight: The Stolen Thief Forging of a Knight: The Stolen Thief, by Hugo V. Negron, is the fourth in the Forging of a Knight series, and the first I read. When I started to read it, I didn’t realize it was the fourth in a series, but it stands alone well, once…
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children) Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs is, as I type this, being made into a movie by Tim Burton, who is probably the only person who could pull it off successfully. The story is about Jacob Portman, whose grandfather, Abraham Portman, would…
Go Set a Watchman: A Novel So, after much consideration, I decided to read Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman.” I had a little bit of a moral conundrum about it: I mean, if she didn’t want me to read it, who am I to invade her privacy like that? But then, who am…
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, by Benjamin Alire Saenz (do not ask me how to pronounce his last name – sah-ENZ maybe? SAH-enz? Senz?) is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time, and I’ve read a lot of…
It’s no secret that I love books, and that I love talking about books. I even like the way they look: my decorating scheme can be best described as “Piles of Unread Books.” I read voraciously, and review the books I like on my website. Since this is the beginning of 2016, and everyone else…
Carter & Lovecraft It’s no big secret that I’m a tremendous fan of Jonathan L. Howard’s writing. His Johannes Cabal series (click here for my review of one of the books, and here for a review of a short story – the only reason why I didn’t review gushingly each book and story in the series…
The Children of Darkness The Children of Darkness, by David Litwack, is a dystopian young adult novel, of the sort that seems to be very popular these days. This isn’t a Hunger Games clone, though, and has original characters and plot. I was given a copy of this book by the good folks at BookBear…