#2024Book37

Readers who enjoyed this book might also enjoy "Gator Country" by Rebecca Renner.

This was pretty good, but unlike the author, I have NO sympathy toward poachers.

Readers who enjoyed this book might also enjoy "Cat Tale" by Craig Pittman.

#2024Book36

#2024Book35

This was very good, and not just because of all the attention-grabbing headlines that it has been getting. #2024Book34

...weapons and impulsive, combative diplomacy terrified Trump's national security advisers.

General William McRaven

"You've got a problem with moderate women," Lindsey Graham told the former president. "The people that think the earth is flat and that we didn't go to the moon, you've got them." ?

"When an ideological construct can't be explained because it's based on specious arguments, advocates lean heavily on the language of faith."

Our enemy is relentless and colossal, but also uncreative and stupid.

I was enjoying this, but the strange ending mostly ruined it for me. #2024Book33

This novel was published in 2012. It's weird and prescient to read this sentence now, after the Notre Dame did indeed burn down. Of course, the very plot of the book became somewhat prescient due to Colin Kaepernick.

"When strangers send us white powder, we sweeten our tea with it."

I agree.

"Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it." --George Bernard Shaw

There was a very powerful, very vivid description of terrorism in this novel, and there was also some beautiful writing about cities. Despite this, this novel didn't really do much for me. I also could have done without the descriptions of how one character would constantly abuse his cat. Was this supposed to be funny? Because it's not. #2024Book32

...It had been easy. The pages that follow are light with their loss. The text is less dense. The city is smaller.

...show and tell. Those nights, those cities are the center , the fulcrum, the very wheel upon which you turn.

Simon Rich is the greatest humor writer alive, and his latest collection of short stories confirms it. I particularly enjoyed "The City Speaks," and "We're Not So Different, You and I."

#2024Book31

Sugar-sweet, folksy, Midwestern charm drips off of every page of this atrociously bad novel, one in which every character enjoys a happy ending, like something out of a shitty Disney movie. This novel is about the Guinness Book of World Records, and the reader can't help but feel that Sherwood is trying to get into the record book for writing the corniest novel of all time. #2024Book30

Obsessive repulsive.😅