Isaiah Roby's Blog: MI Book Reviews, page 147
May 12, 2015
An Abundance of Katherines
“When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy–loving best friend riding shotgun—but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predi...
May 5, 2015
Ozma of Oz
“Dorothy is back, and she’s not in Kansas anymore. But she’s not in Oz, either! L. Frank Baum’s magical world comes to life once again as our beloved Dorothy Gale takes yet another unexpected trip to a mystical, faraway land. This time, Dorothy winds up in the land of Ev; she meets new friends such as Tik-Tok the mechanical man and Billina, perhaps the cleverest chicken you’ll ever encounter. Dorothy will also have to face the wicked Nome King, who’s imprisoned the royal family of Ev. Lucky f...
April 30, 2015
Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
“Merle and Ted found each other in the Utah desert— Merle was living wild and Ted was looking for a pup to keep him company. As their bond grew, Ted taught Merle how to live around wildlife, and Merle taught Ted about the benefits of letting a dog make his own decisions.Using the latest in wolf research and exploring issues of animal consciousness and leadership and the origins of the human-dog relationship, Ted Kerasote takes us on the journey he and Merle shared. As much a love story as a s...
April 28, 2015
The Wanting Seed
“Set in the near future,The Wanting Seedis a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce.
Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious.”
I read A Clockwork Orange years ago and loved it s...
April 23, 2015
FF: Internet
Title: Internet
Author:Count Morningstar
Universe: Strawberry Panic
Pairing: Amane/Hikori
Summary: “During a quiet afternoon on the web, Hikari clicks on something she shouldn’t have. And when Amane walks in and sees just what that something is, things take an interesting turn. Just another SP one-shot. Rated M for a very good reason.”
This was a one-shot that should not be entered with high expectations. It isn’t amazing and it isn’t horrible. It is mostly well written, basic typos exist th...
April 21, 2015
Hired by the Cowboy
“Alexis Grayson is good at looking after herself-she’s been doing it all her life. So what if she’s alone and pregnant? She’ll cope! But gorgeous cowboy Connor Madsen seems determined to take care of her. And Alexis can help him-he needs a temporary wife; she needs somewhere to live until the baby’s born. A short-term marriage will solve all their difficulties!
As Alexis gets to know the courageous, honorable Connor, she realizes that she might have made the biggest mistake of her life. Becau...
April 16, 2015
Walden Two
“This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct.”
So this book was assigned reading for a Psychology AP class in high school. I did not read it then. I head read the first two chapters, but then craziness happened and I was no longer in the class. I never forgot that I needed to read it. I found a copy a...
April 14, 2015
Octopus Pie: There Are No Stars in Brooklyn
“Follow the adventures of two BrooklynitesEve, a nerdy acerbic twentysomething and her roommate, Hanna, a long-lost friend who has blossomed into a chronically happy-go-lucky stoner. Crazed childhood rivals, art world hipsters, Eves meddlesome mom, and boyfriends past and present crowd their odd yet ordinary lives.
In the twilight zone between college and the adult world lies the sardonic, witty, maddening, and sometimes melancholy terrain that Meredith Grans addictive comic Octopus Pie maps...
April 9, 2015
Stuck In The Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders
“A father forsix years, a mother for ten, and for a time in between, neither, or both, Jennifer Finney Boylan has seen parenthood from both sides of the gender divide. When her two children were young, Boylan came out as transgender, and as Jenny transitioned from a man to a woman and from a father to a mother, her family faced unique challenges and questions. In this thoughtful, tear-jerking, hilarious memoir, Jenny asks what it means to be a father, or a mother, and to what extent gender sh...
April 7, 2015
A Wolf At The Table
“When Augusten Burroughs was small, his father was a shadowy presence in his life: a form on the stairs, a cough from the basement, a silent figure smoking a cigarette in the dark. As Augusten grew older, something sinister within his father began to unfurl. Something dark and secretive that could not be named.
With A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs makes a quantum leap into untapped emotional terrain: the radical pendulum swing between love and hate, the unspeakably terrifying relation...
