The Impossible Job: The Truly Unbelievable World of Football Referees by William Ralston
In a nutshell: Author Ralston explores the world of football (soccer in the US) refereeing told via interviews with some of the top professionals in the game. Best for: Anyone who claims to be a football fan. Anyone who has yelled ‘REFEREE?!’ at their TV (or at a live match). Referees. Quote … [Read more]
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Bingo: Refuge. The main character Anna serves as a refuge to others in times of hardship. My dad likes to poke fun at my tendency to read about heavy topics. When I told him I was reading a book about the plague, he thought it was par for the course. But as horrifying as the Black Plague was, … [Read more]
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
If you are the kind of person who would enjoy reading a historical oil painting to filth; if you would like to understand why art museums are "like that"; if you have always been slightly confused by the (financial) system of worship so easily observed in art galleries around the world: Ways of … [Read more]
Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary by Naoto Fukasawa & Jasper Morrison
Fitting, that my first reviewed book begins with a photo of a trash can. Fitting also, that the only book of substance in Foyles' Interior Design section should be so slim and so plain. I only found this unassuming paperback after about fifteen minutes of rifling through glossy tomes. But perhaps … [Read more]
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
I have an almost forty-year history with Isak Dinesen (aka Karen Blixen); I spent the night I was born apparently listening to my mother read Out of Africa/Shadows on the Grass out loud. (A year or two ago I managed to read them myself, as I hated not knowing how it ended.) Which sparked in me a … [Read more]
Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Lizzy Goodman
CBR18 Bingo: Friends - Childhood friends formed bands together, many of whom had epic friend breakups after they got famous. Everyone thought we were fighters. I couldn’t care less about fighting. I want to fight off women, not men. ― Lizzy Goodman, Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and … [Read more]
