Language, and things
I have developed something akin to an addiction to what one bookseller aptly calls “the intelligent woman’s bodice-ripper”, i.e., harlequin romance novels with a meatier storyline. I love this description, because it allows me to justify the hours (which lead to days, which lead to weeks) I spend thoroughly enchanted by these books, perfectly happy [...]
Posted at 10:01 pm on October 18, 2011 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Literature, Uncategorized | read on
“World War Z”
*Spoiler Alert* There was a zombie epidemic that almost destroyed the human race. Actually, that wasn’t a spoiler at all, which is one of the many delicious aspects that made me devour Max Brooks’s novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Random House, 2006). Even though we know the general outcome [...]
Posted at 3:59 pm on November 19, 2009 | Comments Off | Filed Under: Book Review, Literature, Zombies | read on
