Category: BookReviews-text

#1: Eleven on Top (A Stephanie Plum Novel), by Janet Evanovich Another Stephanie Plum mystery novel. This time, Stephanie quits her job, but the job won’t quit her. #2: Boomsday, by Christopher Buckley A sardonic look at the Social Security system. Buckley is a political satirist, so the story comes off as over-the-top sometimes. There’s […]

This is an archive of my shorter book reviews and notes, which historically have been posted over at the 50 Book Challenge on LiveJournal, but which I’m starting to move over here. I’m posting them with altered date-stamps, but they might show up in my LiveJournal cross-post anyway. Bear with me, please. Note: Many of […]

This is an archive of my shorter book reviews and notes, which historically have been posted over at the 50 Book Challenge on LiveJournal, but which I’m starting to move over here. I’m posting them with altered date-stamps, but they might show up in my LiveJournal cross-post anyway. Bear with me, please. Note: Many of […]

This is an archive of my shorter book reviews and notes, which historically have been posted over at the 50 Book Challenge on LiveJournal, but which I’m starting to move over here. I’m posting them with altered date-stamps, but they might show up in my LiveJournal cross-post anyway. Bear with me, please. Note: Many of […]

None of the topics are covered in any great depth or detail, and there are some cases where the author’s information is suspect or perhaps outdated (but I don’t think even in 1994 that you needed a recent veterinary certificate to cross state lines with a cat in your car).

…It was like, if you were a rock climber, and someone wrote a book of fiction in which everyone was a rock climber, but they had absolutely no story going on in their lives aside from rock climbing– and nobody ever fell off a cliff.