This book was written by Robert McCammon, who is one of my favorite authors. It was pretty good and had an interesting premise: it was about a werewolf who was undercover for the British military. Apparently there’s another book about this same character, The Wolf’s Hour. Surely I must have read it in the past, but I really can’t remember. So, I should probably check it out, too.
My rating: 3.5/5
We had our (almost) annual Mother’s Day/Jacob’s birthday party yesterday. I even tried to schedule it on a different day (Jake’s actual birthday), but a school event came up so we had to reschedule and this was the only day that worked for everyone. The usual suspects were present. I made a ton of food and prepped most of it on Saturday, so it was easy sailing yesterday. It’s barely even a challenge to cook for a dozen plus people anymore. I think I need to up my game.
Add another skill to our list. Our house a/c has been broken since the fall. We scheduled an appointment to have it fixed last month, but the guy never showed up.
Annoyed, I did a little research and found that the problem was probably a capacitor that needed to be replaced, which we’ve had done in the past. Further research showed that this was a pretty easy thing to do. So I bought a capacitor on Amazon and Brian replaced it and the a/c is running again! And, he didn’t charge for labor, so we’ll call it a win.
Since this was a holiday movie, I suppose it would have been better to watch this around the holidays, but I was in the mood for a comedy and those are in short supply in my Netflix queue, so this one made the cut.
It starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen and some other guy (who I’ve never seen before) as best friends who go out every Christmas Eve and search for some fabled Christmas party they heard about once at a club. Hijinks ensue.
My rating: 3/5
This book reminded me why I stopped reading John Grisham years ago–all of his books are the same story. There’s always something fishy going on with a law firm somewhere; offshore bank accounts are involved; and some lawyer always gets away with something in the end.