Goodreads: Describe the book you’re currently reading in three words! Jarrod: Author reinserts himself. If I’m going to review books V and VI then I might as well close it out with number VII—more Roman numerals, please! Do I then follow the author’s lead and start over with The Gunslinger next? “Stephen King fled through […]
[Mind redacted spoilers—highlight to reveal—and paragraphs ending with questions.] Goodreads: Describe the book you’re currently reading in three words! Jarrod: Author inserts himself. Such is the wrong turn King made when resuming The Dark Tower after a six-year hiatus that nearly killed him. Equal time passed between the earlier third and fourth books—The Waste Lands […]
Updated: January 1, 2020 Continuing, for some reason, to chronicle every book and short story I’ve read since The Lord of the Rings in the spring of 2017. Volume 1 (2017) | Volume 2 (2018) | “Selected readings from the Old Lady Book Club” Critical remarks are avoided while ratings are reserved for “Library Book Club” selections and other significant achievements/shame […]
Updated: January 1, 2019 Continuing, for some reason, to chronicle every book and short story I’ve read since The Lord of the Rings last spring. Volume 1 (2017) | “Selected readings from the Old Lady Book Club” Critical remarks are avoided while ratings are reserved for “Library Book Club” selections (noted in red to represent the spectre of […]
Updated: January 1, 2018 Chronicling, for some reason, every book and short story I’ve read since The Lord of the Rings late in the spring. This is a companion to the rabble-rousing “Selected readings from the Old Lady Book Club,” protested openly by AARP, NOW and other pro-civility agencies. You cannot spell literati without ire, […]
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