To be honest, it was a struggle finishing this book. Sure, there were great, fancy, colorful illustrations, but that is not what I needed. It was kind of dragging for me how the protagonist went on and on about the things she kept while she was in a relationship with the guy in the story. Though ...
The "Basic Eight" are a group of teenage friends. Flannery Culp is our neurotic narrator. The novel is about love and murder and friendship in high school. This review of THE BASIC EIGHT features my very own Basic Eight (minus two or three) from Los Alamitos, Orange County. Photos circa 1988.KEY ...
Back Flips and Party TricksI hated the first chapter of this novel, so much so that it took almost 200 pages for me to recover and trust Daniel Handler.Still, once it all started to come together, I did an amazing about face.By the end, I loved “Adverbs” and felt sad that I had to leave this craz...
Do not read this book if you are picking it up because you like Daniel Handler's writing.DO read this book if you like experimental fiction as well Jewish mythology and the absurd nature of modern opera.The first half of this book uses the guise of a 'satire of opera' to tell a lengthy absurd-sty...
I wasn’t invited. The party was out under the cold sky, with a view of the bridge. At the time this story takes place, the bridge was called the Bay Bridge, and it connected San Francisco to points east, where the country was originally founded, except during rush hour, when it just clutched cars...