The life of the main character, Paul Trilby, has never been the same after he
drowned his wife's cat, Charlotte, in the couple's bathtub. Charlotte now haunts
every move that Paul makes, foiling any opportunity for happiness.
very strange, this is enough to get me to read this
The parody is framed by the premise that Carolyn Keene (the pseudonym under
which the Nancy Drew series was written) was actually Nancy Drew's roommate for
a short time at Bryn Mawr, and basically stole Nancy's life from her out of
jealousy, retelling all of her detecting adventures through a somewhat skewed
lens.
This sounds like a funny twist on the Nancy Drew books, and I would be interested in reading it because I used to read the Nancy Drew series when I was younger.
Paul finally ends up as a temporary technical writer at TxDoGS, a government
office in what seems to be Austin, Texas, where a series of encounters with his
weird co-workers (not to mention the unnoticed-by-anyone-else dead body in the
next cubicle) forces him to choose between a life of ease at TxDoGS and an
honorable but probably unsuccessful future
I like the suspense that this book already gives to the reader. These are the types of things that i look for in a good book, suspense for the reader and a great plot.
It sounds like kind of like a little kids story because where else does a purse expand to a complete village?
of upper-class women who married in the early 1950s, raised children, divorced
in the 1970s, and are now soldiering their way through the illness, regrets,
persistent sorrows and indignities of growing old. The group includes the
artistic one, the recovering alcoholic, the one whose daughter killed herself,
and more.
Sounds like a little kids story because where else does a purse expand to a whole village?
You simply have to accept — at least for the length of the story — that there
might be zombies around, or that a purse can expand to hold a complete village
This book intrests me becuase I can relate to the book in how its country like and how hes restoring a truck.
It's a time when he restores his 1951 International Harvester pickup truck to
working order and falls in love, for real. It's hard for me to think of anyone
who wouldn't enjoy this heartfelt and humorous tale,
that you're sucked into the
world of the stories before you know it
,
This book sounds interesting on the changing on the lives of women through history.
the lives of a group of upper-class women who married in the early 1950s, raised
children, divorced in the 1970s, and are now soldiering their way through the
illness, regrets, persistent sorrows and indignities of growing old.
Cain's love of the Nancy Drew books and her ability to draw out and twist every
ridiculous morsel from the originals combine to make for an hour or two of
tremendously entertaining reading.
This book seems interesting even though I've never read any of the Nancy Drew books. I probably wouldn't ever read it, it just sounds better than all the other books.
frequent death-defying escapes, and periodic encounters with the more famous
pair of explorers (who often need to be rescued by means of True's ingenuity)
Hmm...D.Trump maybe??? j/k but sounds pretty interesting
On the other hand, Link's writing is so remarkable, her use of language so
mind-bogglingly perfect,
that you're sucked into
the
world of the stories before you
know it
,
beguiled by
descriptions like this one, of a sofa covered with "an orange-juice-colored
corduroy that makes it appear as if the couch has just escaped from a maximum
security prison for criminally insane furniture."
Without giving away too much of the plot (except to say that it includes human
sacrifice and zombies), it's best to just say that the cat, Charlotte, who's
bent on revenge, continues to run Paul's life.
Kings of Infinite Space
A Novel of the Lewis & Clark & Kinneson Expeditions tells the
story of a Vermont ex-soldier named True Teague Kinneson and his nephew,
Ticonderoga, who race Lewis and Clark to the Pacific.
It's a time when he restores his
1951 International Harvester pickup truck to
working order and falls in love,
for real.
It's hard for me to think of anyone
who wouldn't enjoy this
heartfelt and humorous tale
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women who married in the early 1950s, raised children, divorced in the 1970s,
and are now soldiering their way through the illness, regrets, persistent
sorrows and indignities of growing old.
volunteer firefighter and EMT in his small Wisconsin town — writes about his
momentous 40th year.
It's a time when he restores his
1951 International Harvester pickup truck to
working order and falls in love,
for real.