December 2016 – Page 3 – Looking For a Good Book

December 3, 2016

AND EVERY MORNING THE WAY HOME GETS LONGER AND LONGER – Fredric Backman

I am at such a loss for words for this novella. I’ve started this review four times and nothing seems quite right. Fredrik Backman’s writing is so touching, so beautiful, so powerful in its simplicity that trying to write about it just doesn’t feel right. On the one hand, this is a very simple, quick… Continue reading

OTHER

5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Literature, Reviews

December 2, 2016

A CITY DREAMING – Daniel Polansky

A little over a year ago I review Christina Henry’s Alice, which was a dark, tremendous re-telling of the Alice in Wonderland story. It was sort of like mashing up Lewis Carroll with Franz Kafka. Daniel Polansky’s A City Dreaming is also a dark, wicked Alice in Wonderland-like adventure, but it adds one more author… Continue reading

Dark Fantasy/Horror, SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Horror/Dark Fantasy, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

December 1, 2016

THE MAKING OF THE RANKIN/BASS HOLIDAY CLASSIC: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER – Rick Goldschmidt

As someone who grew up with this classic holiday program, trying to make sure my parents didn’t schedule anything on the one night of the year that this would air, I was really interested in looking behind the scenes. I love “the making of” books. I suspect it was this fascination with behind the scenes… Continue reading

ENTERTAINMENT, NON-FICTION, Uncategorized

4 stars, Book Reviews, Books, Entertainment, Holiday, non-fiction, Reviews, Television

December 1, 2016

SOME OF TIM’S STORIES – S.E. Hinton

THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A REISSUE I might be one of the few people on the planet who has never read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders or Rumble Fish. I am familiar with these books, of course, but they were not part of my early reading adventures and I just haven’t gotten around to reading these YA… Continue reading

SHORT FICTION, Uncategorized, YA

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, Short Stories, Young Adult