Booktalk

Chester Brown Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography
I really should just stop trying with the graphic novels. I mean, I enjoyed the style of storytelling, I learned lots about Riel, I think this should be used in schools to get students more interested in history, but I was also annoyed that the pictures interrupted the text. Although, I did love the caricature of Sir John A.

Christopher Buckley Boomsday

Now that's more like it. Thank you, Mr. Buckley, for restoring my faith in your powers of amusement after the last book of yours I read. This one was a hilarious look down the road a few years when all the boomers start retiring. One 30-something blogger, tired of all the added "youth" taxes needed to support the boomers, proposes inheritance tax breaks and free medical for people who agree to voluntary death at age 65. So funny.

Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club

I was reading this as my subway book, feeling fairly mediocre about it, and then one day I got home and just kept reading. So I guess I was enjoying it. All things considered, it's a fun book, and it inspired me to pick Emma up off my to-be-read shelf next.

Jessica Gregson The Angel Makers

This was fabulous, and I'm not just saying that because she's a friend. :D It's about a girl in a small village in Eastern Europe, before WWI. It's about her relationship with the rest of the village, and I thought I knew where it was going, and then it completely turned itself around on me and it was so good.

Scott Miller Rebels with Applause: Broadway's Groundbreaking Musicals

Here's the thing: when Miller's talking about some of the early shows (Pal Joey, Oklahoma), the book is interesting and informative. But when he starts talking about shows that he's actually been involved in, he is so annoying. Jeez.

Bharati Mukherjee The Tree Bride

This was okay, but not great. It was about an Indian woman, living in California, who finds a connection in the past between her family and her OBGYN's family, which causes her to start reading old diaries and papers. Interspersed with this was the story of the Tree Bride, a young girl whose betrothed died on his way to their wedding, so she was married to a tree so that she wouldn't have to live her life as a widow. Mostly I just found that the two stories didn't mesh well in style, although there were interesting parts to both.

Terry Pratchett The Last Continent

More fun Pratchett, although perhaps going too much for the easy joke.

And now I have all sorts of books out from the library that I'm really excited to read. I hope I can read them soon!