Month: November 2015

Paparazzi Become Repulsive

The episode starts off with teams learning at the pit stop that the leg isn’t finished. Before they take off racing again, Phil asked them if they wanted to donate money to charity. All the teams gave all the cash they had on them. The Paparazzi were the only team...

Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan Pages: 416 Genre: Literary Fiction Published: 2002 Link: Amazon | Powell’s Gould’s Book of Fish has won many awards. It has been lauded with great praise for its magic realism, and while I did find Flanagan’s way with words quite lyrical,...

‘Salem’s Lot

‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King Pages: 439 Genre: Horror Published: 1975 Going into reading ‘Salem’s Lot after finishing Carrie, I was expecting to be scared. Parts of Carrie were creepy and I thought since this was King’s second novel that he would build upon it to actually scare me. It was about vampires,...

The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2)

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith Pages: 455 Genre: Mystery Published: 2014 A Cormoran Strike Novel In The Silkworm, the second novel from J.K. Rowling under her pseudonym, Robert Galbraith, the private detective, Cormoran Strike is not so desperate as he was in the first novel. After solving the mystery of the famous model’s murder,...

Annihilation (Southern Reach #1)

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer Pages: 208 Genre: Science Fiction Published: 2014 Part One of the Southern Reach Trilogy Series Annihilation falls into a science fiction realm that is parts dystopian, surrealism, and horror. Area X is one part of a continent where the laws of nature do not act like expected. Human civilization...