Tanqueray by Brandon Stanton and Stephanie Sohnson
Humans of New York creator Brandon Stanton teams up with intensely human, long time New York resident Stephanie Johnson to tell a story that doesn't fit on a single picture's description on Instagram. Stephanie is something of a tragic figure, although I think she would cringe and resent such a … [Read more]
The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente.
I did not think I would like the short novel; The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente. I felt I would never understand it and was going to stop reading as things felt disjointed, the narrator was bouncing all over, and there was stuff that was very off. The book felt like a translation that was not … [Read more]
Check your numbers! Check your Badges! Thank you so much for playing the Book Bingo Reading Challenge this year. This one almost didn't happen. It was only because of persistent kindness from MsWas, and lots of help from yesknopemaybe, teresaelectro, faintingviolet, andtheIToldYouSos, and Rachel … [Read more]
Floating Dragon by Peter Straub
The introduction to this book written when it was published has Peter Straub explaining that his idea for the novel was to present a scattered narrative and he was looking for a way to present that scattered story in a comprehensible if not cohesive way actually. His model then was Paul Scott's … [Read more]
Glory Road by Bruce Catton
The first book in this series seemed like a more straight-forward history of the Army of the Potomac, especially its formation and early movements. Perhaps this book takes on a much different tack, or more possibly the history just got a little weirder, because this book is much more in the vein of … [Read more]
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer by David Winner
Before cracking open this book I could have told you the following things about Dutch football: that there was a famous player named Johan Cruyff who has some kind of "turn" named after him, that the best team in the country is named Ajax but it's not pronounced like you'd think, and that the … [Read more]
