By potatobiker on Nov 22, 2006 in Textual Innuendo | 1 Comment
I have read several, but just haven’t had time to post anything about them. So here’s a rundown, not counting the literally dozens of graphic novels. Doing It by Melvin Burgess. B+ British teens love thinking, talking, bragging about doing it, but don’t actually ever really enjoy doing it. Told mostly from the perspecs of [...]
By potatobiker on Sep 16, 2006 in Textual Innuendo | 0 Comments
The giant book I’m reading takes so long I sometimes can fit another book in between chapters. Grayson, a nonfiction book by Lynne Cox, only took me like an hour to read. Summary: A 17-yr-old swimmer must help a lost baby gray whale find his mother off the coast of California. Review: I was amazed [...]
By potatobiker on Sep 3, 2006 in Textual Innuendo | 2 Comments
This year I read 48 books and 25 graphic novels. This is much better than all previous years! Graphic novel-wise, I have always been an X-Men, Batman, Spider-Man girl. We have plenty of Batman at the library so I got a lot of that read this year, but we ran out of X-Men and Spider-Man. [...]
By potatobiker on Aug 11, 2006 in Textual Innuendo | 0 Comments
Go to the library’s website http://www.youseemore.com/duncan/ and type “Freud” in the search field. Click “Go.” When you get the results, laugh your ass off at the freudian-named author who wrote the second book.
By potatobiker on Apr 17, 2006 in Textual Innuendo | 2 Comments
So I finally read A Million Little Pieces by James “Oprah’s Bitch” Frey. Maybe it’s just hindsight, maybe it’s just David Cross’s influence, but I think I THINK this book is not just a load of crap, but is OBVIOUSLY a load of crap. Now, it wasn’t a BAD book at all. The style was [...]