I was trying to find out if an author tour is planned, so I could pick up a hardcover copy from a local bookstore nearish hosting an eve03 April, 2023
I was trying to find out if an author tour is planned, so I could pick up a hardcover copy from a local bookstore nearish hosting an event where I could say "I love your work" and get a copy signed. Did not find. Checked the publisher website and saw "Category: Romance."
WTH? To be clear, I read a lot of romance, so I am not ragging on the idea. I just can't reconcile having only one Category tag for an author with crossover appeal. But also: did anyone in marketing look at that cover? That cover says "for fans of
[image]
and
[image]
, and
[image]
" That cover says humorous scifi, not Romance.
Am I wrong?
***
4th July, 2023
And today I finished reading it, coincidentally over the July fourth weekend during which I also saw Asteroid City. Not the only good time to read it, but pretty good.
The book is better than "pretty good" by a lot. Classic screwball comedy which does require a little love interest, but is more about putting sane people in a maelstrom of amusing absurdity for comic effect. Willis is brilliant at that maelstrom. And at the cinematic references. So many movies are named checked, that one should probably not read it without an interest in movies. A delightful read, and one lending itself to dream casting: there aren't any bad choices no matter when or where the cast is selected.
The joy of reading YA is that stories about young adults, written for young adults, often veer off in unexpected directions. This is a s6 January 2023
The joy of reading YA is that stories about young adults, written for young adults, often veer off in unexpected directions. This is a story about five teens and a dog living in yet another small town hollowed out by catastrophe and no future. Two have just graduated, but this summer will be spent with time carved out from between their jobs at Walmart and the YMCA shooting video of themselves ghost hunting. And then one night something amazing falls from the sky...
You can shoot your own trailer from that. There's danger and excitement and mystery in the best Scooby-Doo tradition, although these kids can't afford a van. There is ever increasing creepiness and un-put-downable suspense. And then there's more.
The beginning, the grim reality of their lives, drags on the reader as much as on Franny. But Henry knows how to raise the stakes. So worth it.
This is a very good book: fun to read, thoughtful without becoming preachy, while also being a ripping yarn. I loved it really. And props to Green forThis is a very good book: fun to read, thoughtful without becoming preachy, while also being a ripping yarn. I loved it really. And props to Green for having a diverse cast with different takes on life in the US in more-or-less now. There are a lot of things I particularly loved about plot choices but won't discuss because spoilers. Lots of twists in the spaghetti, lots of things I didn't see coming. The only thing that was at all disappointing was that Green had a number of characters relate their parts of the story, and I didn't think that was quite successful. Arguably a group of friends would sound very much alike, but while the point of view shifted and the action and even the content of the thoughts, the individual voices seemed similar. YMMV. Anyway, I hope this is the second in a very long list of books to come from Green. He's got mad skills already and I have no trouble imagining that he's going to become even stronger as a writer.
Gotta love an android who has modded theirself, and, in the traditional method, consumed all the media necessary to give theirself mo07 September 2021
Gotta love an android who has modded theirself, and, in the traditional method, consumed all the media necessary to give theirself more empathy than most humans. Even if they call theirself Murderbot.
Pronouns are such a bother.
Okay, now I get all the enthusiasm. Back in the day I used to really enjoy Asimov's space mysteries. Not enough to actually go back and read because Asimov's sexism has kind of left a bad taste in my mouth. Happy is the woman who can have her space mysteries without the sexism.
Library copy
This is good for plenty of squares, but since I already had Project Hail Mary on deck for the Lost in Space Square, I took advantage of the cover and used it for the Paint It Black square.
Loading...
