Newspaper columnist, former radio playwright, Booklist's ''most prolific reviewer of adult fiction and nonfiction.'' Bookseller. I wanna be a paperback writer.
Lake Centre, N.S., Canada
Joined July 2017
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Someday I'm going to write the definitive history of board games and I'll call it SORRY/NOT SORRY and you can't stop me.
Reviewing @nealstephenson's forthcoming Polostan for a review in @ALA_Booklist. I'd like to spend an hour or so inside this man's mind, just to see how he conceives his magnificent stories. (Cryptonomicon is a once-a-year read for me.)
Reading @StephenKing 's forthcoming book of short fiction for an @ALA_Booklist review.
Reading @cjtudor's The Gathering for a Booklist review. Don't want to give away too much, but I will say I probably won't use a lunchbox anymore. See chapter 33.
What I especially like about this novel by @arrroberts is the circularity of its three-part structure. Once you've finished the book you want to start it again, to capture the nuances you missed in the first part because you hadn't read the second and third parts.
I'm hardly ever on here anymore, but had to swing by to compliment @arrroberts on Purgatory Mount. A slice of brilliance, that. [I have a Bluesky code if you want to join us cool kids over there.]
Read this book. Do it now.
Hey, for some reason The Devil Takes You Home is only $3.99 right now! No idea how long it’ll last. Get some! Tell your friends! That’s a lot of horror, mayhem, violence, monsters, and grief for less than a cup of bland coffee with a funky name.
amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09N5R5K8…
Picked up a used copy of @GillyMacmillan's The Perfect Girl. I haven't read all her books, but The Long Weekend, The Nanny, and To Tell You the Truth are first rate.
Well: Barbie. I don't think "brilliant" is too big a word. A masterpiece of imagination. @cinemaxwell, I can see why you kept going back.
Says here on Wikipedia that the Tom Cruise movie The Mummy, a movie I do not like, cost between 125 and 195 million bucks, made 410 million, and was somehow a box-office bomb. Either the studio spent a shit-ton on marketing or they need a new accountant.
I just want to point out that in his new book, The Vile Thing We Created, @RobertOttone has a character call children "crotch goblins" and that's just a terrific turn of phrase.
