[Truly you lose something just reading these words and not hearing the beat. It’s a great song.]
Sometimes I feel so alone, I just don’t know,
Feels like I’ve been down this road before
So lonely and cold, it’s like something takes over me
As soon as I go home and close the door
Kinda feels like deja vu
I want to get away from this place, I do
But I can’t, and I won’t,
I say I try, but I know that’s a lie, ’cause I don’t
And why, I just don’t know
I read Egan’s (fairly) recent book “The Keep” right before I moved all my book thoughts over to this page (see it right at the top of the old readin page), but I think this collection was published well before that novel.
I thought these were great. Unexpected and tense. The main characters are often in moments of conflict or deception. Very different from each other. And all very finely detailed.
Our June challenge book.
We both just TOTALLY loved this book. So much fantastic word play. Great plot, nice details on the L.I.C./BQE area of NYC. A completely original take on this type of book, just takes it to another level.
As DadReaction put it: you know, I usually don’t enjoy bizarre narrators but I really–EAT ME, MINNAWEED–like Lionel–and the unlocking of the Tourette’s experience is just dazzling (like when he talks about the environments that calm him). Balmslim. Slamkill. Allmiss. Really good.
Also (GR here again) reminded me of the character Adah from Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible (a great book and to my mind by far the best Kingsolver book).
As with City of Refuge, bought after reading about it at the Tournament of Books.
I really didn’t have that much an idea of what to expect, and this book just got better and better as it went along. As each chapter unfolded, you realize the story is actually about something completely different than you were expecting. Expertly drawn small-town dramas, this all felt so familiar and so real.
It really takes talent to make you care about characters that are in many ways not very attractive people. Loved it!
I can’t remember now if I read about these somewhere or if I just came across them in the bookstore but I loved them! Ann Aguirre may be my next go-to sci fi writer (after Patricia Briggs and Elizabeth A. Lynn).
A female space pilot who navigates faster-than-light ships telepathically through “grimspace”. An intergalactic corporation whose monopoly may be coming to an end. A hot mystery man.
Mmmmmm.
These books were a lot of tightly plotted fun with sassy dialogue to boot. I really hope there’s going to be another one in the series!!! (In the meantime, I have bought another book by Aguirre with a different setting/heroine.)
F.A.N.T.A.S.T.I.C.
Best movie you will see all year. Now get your butts out there to see it so it makes enough money to get wider distribution and maybe, just maybe, be shown in the teeny town theater near my pops who really, really wants to see it.
It was one of the best war movies I’ve EVER seen. And I have seen a LOT of war movies.
*The Shit Out Of
In the order in which they appear on “Mariko Made Me, Spring ’07” one of my favorite playlists. If I love you, you might already have a copy of it. If not, it can’t hurt to ask. (And by ask I mean beg, steal or borrow. Or offer something in trade.)
Pete Yorn “Social Development Dance” (from his new album “Back & Fourth” that I really, really like)
And when we kissed it was electric
A chemist made us for each other…
There’s something missing in us
We long to make it whole
Though it never feels like it
I know you have it all
I know you have it all…
I heard you were staying up north with a friend
And that your hair was falling out
I tried to find out what had happened to you
I googled you in quotes, got no results
I never learned how you had died
But I knew how you had lived…
Well, we have another summer where the most realistic humans are in CARTOONS!!! They do an intro montage on the life of this old couple and your jaw drops at the sheer sadness of time, time passing, frailty, as the kick off to this fantasy!!!
ALSO: The fantasy/adventure really rocks. Could NOT take kids to the flick. Much scarier than Drag Me To Hell. NO EXAGGERATION. 🙂
[bold = mine. he cracks me up.]
Bought in Dublin.
Really liked this book. Set in Belfast. Two down-n-out friends. Chuckie Lurgan, protestant, and Jake Jackson, catholic. They’re so scruffy and downtrodden, one would have to call them anti-heroes. It’s sarcastic and crass and rough and funny and unexpected. Very enjoyable.