As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth

Oh my goodness, I do like this author! The question is, how can I describe this book and do it justice? The plot could be likened to a Rube Goldberg machine, with one thing leading to another until it is all flowing along, quite out-of-control. Or perhaps it brings to mind the saying that life is wh......more

While I didn't have the feeling of LOVE LOVE LOVE that I had with Criss Cross, this is a really good book; once again, Lynne Rae Perkins has done something that's not quite what everyone else is doing. (And people who complain that Criss Cross has no plot, even though they're wrong, will not have th......more

Ry is on his way to summer camp when his train stops in the middle of Montana. He gets off to call his parents, then sees the train taking off without him, leaving him stranded. With no one answering his calls home - his parents are on a trip to the Caribbean and his grandfather has his own adventur......more

Quirky. That's the first word that comes to mind. Quirky. Take Lemony Snicket, Wendelin Van Draanen, and a sprinkling of Jonathan Stroud (for the amusing author's interventions/footnotes), and you have As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth. Basically, it asks how do you fall off the face of th......more

Wow. There are so many things I love about this book. There's careful prose like this: Ry's grandfather, Lloyd, took his first cup of coffee out onto the screened porch, sat down on a glider, and waited in the dark for the birds to start chirping. Between him and the sun, there was a thin bit of eart......more