Totally random picture that has nothing to do with the post, it just makes me laugh.
It has not been a good start to the year with books. I have been in a reading slump that seems to have lasted about a year so far. It's annoying - I have so many books that I want to read, but I just can't seem to give any of them my attention for more than a few minutes. I'm shamelessly padding my challenge list with comics - I READ THEM. THEY ARE BOOKS.
2. Kick Me - Paul Feig. I've read this before a few years ago, but as I've said many times, I have the memory of a goldfish and can re-read books every couple of years without remembering much about them. Paul Feig created what is probably my all-time favourite TV show (it's either that one or Twin Peaks, I can't choose definitively), and seems to have used quite a lot of his own life for the basis of the show. This is a sweet, funny childhood memoir about a kid who was a nerd before nerds were cool. I'm not a huge fan of most memoirs, because so many of them are just churned out to cash in on someone's 15 minutes, but this low key set of anecdotes is just gorgeous. I can't recommend it highly enough.
3-9. The Walking Dead Books One to Nine - Robert Kirkman et al. I've been banging on about the TV show to anyone who will listen, and despite its flaws I'm still absolutely adoring it and hang out eagerly every week for the next episode. I read the first of these books and was a bit meh about it, because I'm not overly a fan of comic books in general, and the animation is (deliberately) ugly, which didn't appeal to me. However, I found myself getting sucked into the story and spent a week or two devouring about 8 or 9 years' worth of them.
10. Spent: Memoirs of a Shopping Addict - Avis Cardella. This is a really tedious book about an aimless woman who drifted from one quasi-glamourous job to the next, latching on to a series of wealthy men to help pay for her fashion addiction, which she describes in excruciating detail. Yet another book that proves that just because you can write an enthusiastic blurb in a glossy chick mag about the latest Dior, it doesn't make you a writer.
In a similar vein to Spent, the library just got Spoiled, written by the girls who do Go Fug Yourself. Agonisingly bad. Blogger and novelist - verrry different skillsets.
ReplyDeleteHaha, I've read the synopsis of that book before and it does sound awful.
DeleteThat Shopping Addict book sounds horrid. I want to burn the Shopaholic series currently taking up room at home but my sister wants to keep them when she returns.
ReplyDeleteThat first pic makes me chortle. Ahhh, Dee, never change. :D
I read those Shopaholic books years ago when they first came out and they pissed me off so much. The main chick was a train wreck but the story was written like it was all some jolly lark.
DeleteI managed to laugh off the first and second but when the main chick got married and had a baby and STILL went larking... nearly burst a blood vessel.
DeleteThe walking dead books look like they could defintely be worth a read... I never got round to watching the show cos I figured it would be just another slightly rubbish made for tv zobie story but I've heard nothing but good things.
ReplyDeleteI think the majority of the shopaholic style books could quite comfortably be edited to fill no more than 2 pages of a magazine. and even then I'd probably be bored by the end
I normally have zero interest in zombie things - they're my least favourite monster genre. And I know a lot of people have complained about the slow pace of The Walking Dead, but that's actually one of the things I like about it.
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