This book took me for quite a spin! Although initially a slow starter, starting at the birth of the main character (inspiringly named 'Junior') it's unique premise is that he knows exactly when the world will end. The rest of the book is him screwing up his entire life because of this knowledge a...
Excellent book! A patron recommended this book to me. What would you do if you knew when the world would end? Would you try and save everyone? Would you throw caution to the wind and live your life however you wanted, with no care about the consequences? Junior is told, while still in his moth...
Don't read this if you're not me.8/25/2014. I should have reviewed this back when I finished it like seven months ago. I really liked it; it sort of made me depressed while at the same time making me feel free and hopeful. Ugh. I really need to make notes after I finish books. Update: Appar...
Well this is a tough review to write because this is Ron Currie's first book and I wish him well. And I really wanted to like this one a lot - you know when you get good vibes from a book as soon as you hear about it. And it isn't bad. But I just didn't really get where Ron Currie was coming from...
We sat in a lounge for families of surgery patients. Nauseating green carpet, the eggshell walls one always finds in hospitals. My mother and oldest sister played cribbage and flipped through back issues of Ladies’ Home Journal. I reread Cat’s Cradle, Vonnegut having long been a sort of literary ...