I read this dude-penned book because my dad recommended it and because the next book in the series includes an encounter with Jennifer Miller, a favorite performer of mine and the person who conducted my wedding ceremony.
You may recall that I was disappointed with the first full-length installment in Briggs's Alpha and Omega series. Well, PtL the second novel was up to the high standard Briggs set with her Mercy Thompson books.
Another LCSH request submitted today:
So I just asked for two new LCSH to aid me in describing the zine Bursting Your Bubble : a Rant.
I kind of don't know what to say about this book that isn't in the title. Rudahl did a good job selected what from Living My Life to include and her drawings are dandy.
Like many zine folk I was irritated by Microcosm's use of the term "bookette" in association with zines, but when I got the WNHP Greatest Hits compilation, I was like yeah, this little thing is pretty much a "bookette." It's an adorable half-legal sized, 80 page paperback that weighs 4 ounces. The volume brings together sixteen of Andria's favorite essays, one poem and one comic from the first eight issues of her literary comp zine We'll Never Have Paris, "narrative nonfiction 'for all things never meant to be.'"
This first installment in the Soup Lover's Mystery series introduces us to Lucky Jamieson, who has just returned to Vermont in the wake of her parents' death in a car accident. She has just taken charge of their restaurant and is already in danger of losing it, due to her cook being charged with murder and a subsequent falling off of business, and also some money woes that go unresolved, presumably to be revisited later in the series.
My biggest problem with this book is that the eponymous character isn't actually named Digit; she's called digit, rather than her real name, Farrah. Digit/Farrah is a high school math genius hiding her ability from her seemingly shallow friends, hoping to live a normal life until she meets her destiny at MIT. But destiny can't wait.
So Yale-bound Allee isn't as Yale-bound as she'd like to be because her family is too rich for financial aid and too poor for the Ivy League...until she gets discovered in a model search at a mall. Before hitting the Miami casting scene Allee, who is of Jewish and Cuban distraction, is nerdy and not at all interested in fashion.