why is it that i never really know what i'm doing?

i went to school. got the 27k in debt to prove it. they taught me all kindsa nifty stuff.

and yet, what do i do when an 8 year old pees on the floor in a stream from the self checks to the kids computers? (and just how big is an 8 year old's bladder anyway?) what do i do when a man with garlic and steak breath professes his undying love to me. again. for the 3rd time today.

this is a chronicle of what i did, when the crazy happened. which, in a public library is much more often than you'd think. and which, they also don't teach you about in liberry skool.

oh, and there's also a book review or two.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

just bad

Burnt MountainBurnt Mountain by Anne Rivers Siddons


My rating: 1 of 5 stars


Siddons, Anne Rivers. Burnt Mountain. 8CDs. 9 Hours. AudioGo. 2011. ISBN: 978-1-6078-8553-5 $69.99. F




Thayer Wentworth's life starts fairy-tale like; beloved father and grandmother, rich family, idyllic-southern childhood, until her father dies in a terrible accident on Burnt Mountain. She discovers her first love at camp and loses him due to her mother's betrayal. She later finds solace in her Irish Professor at college, marrying him in spite of her mother. Thayer eventually abandons her husband on Burnt Mountain, coming full circle. Sadly, what begins as a lush southern saga filled with family drama, ends as a disjointed Celtic fable with nothing linking the two. Thayer's growing dissatisfaction with her husband feels forced and his decline into possible lunacy an afterthought. An incongruous timeline with extraneous, under-fleshed characters, incoherent foreshadowing and several abandoned story-lines leave the reader utterly confused. Kate Reading's wonderful narration, unfortunately, doesn't save the book.




-Terry Ann Lawler - Phoenix Public Library, AZ.








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