Review: Moshi Moshi

Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It was an interesting, horizon widening reading. This book is so magnificently Japanese. It's full of reflections on things I wouldn't even think about. As a cultural experience it's invaluable, even though I can't say I can relate much. And I'm still not quite sure why it's called Moshi Moshi. ..

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Review: A Pill Bug's Life

A Pill Bug's Life by Children's Press
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Boring to read (that was supposed to be easy), but !!! accurate as far as I can judge and even I (with MS in biology) learned a couple new things about pill bugs :) Also, we kept pet pill bugs in the house for quite a while after reading this book with my then-five-year-old.

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Review: Blood Vow

Blood Vow by J.R. Ward
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

It was one of the most boring and predictable pieces of vampire erotica I've read so far. But it got me thinking... and I hadn't thought about it before even though it's like the 16th book about the Black Dagger Brotherhood. How does evolution works in this fictional world? There are a few references in the books to the Middle Ages, but no older than that. Anyway, the humanity is not all that old. The oldest known cities are 9, maybe 12 thousand years old. If the average life expectancy of a vampire is "upward of a thousand years, or in some cases even longer", how many generations they have had during that time? Let's assume that an average female has a baby when she's about 100 years old. Even in this case, there would be about 100 generations. And in a hundred generations the species managed to divide into differently looking races, develop special "breeding programs", and produce a couple of subspecies. Brilliant!

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