The Magic Christian by Terry Southern
The Song of Roland by Unknown
Project Kiwayan by Randy Ribay
The Magic Christian - 3/5 Stars I don't know almost anything about Terry Southern except he has a great name and he wrote for the movies in addition to fiction. If you've seen Dr Strangelove, you've seen some of his writing at work, and he was a favorite of Peter Sellers. In addition, he was more … [Read more]
The Sound Inside by Adam Rapp
Men's Health by Daniel Goldfarb
Have a Nice Day by Billy Crystal, Quinton Peeples
Coal Country by Jessica Blank, Erik Jensen, Steve Earle
The Vanishing Negative by Aaron Mark
The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
A Streetcare Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The Sound Inside - 3/5 Stars Written by Adam Rapp and starring Mary Louise Parker, this play is about a writing professor who had had some very minor success early in her career with a debut novel, and now almost 20 years later finds herself with no second novel, and worse, terminal cancer. In … [Read more]
What's Mine and Yours by Naima Coster
CBR Bingo - Heart, because these characters ultimately have so much love for one another This is the story of two families in North Carolina, spread across multiple decades. The story opens in 1992, on the day of a tragedy that impacts young Gee for the rest of his life. Another family is … [Read more]
Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
Rabbit Remembered by John Updike
Licks of Love by John Updike
CBR14Bingo - Body Rabbit is Rich - 4/5 Stars All the Rabbit novels are squarely about two main things: the lives that bodies live and the eclipsing of the white man (according to the white man himself) in American society. In this third novel, which I find to be the most unpleasant of the four … [Read more]
Mouston Abbey: The Missing Diamond by Nick Page & Joanna Bicknell
The third and final Goodwill find is Mouseton Abbey: The Missing Diamond. First, let me confess that I've never watched Downton Abbey, so the relation to it had nothing to do with why I picked this book up. What caught my eye were the adorable crocheted (?) mice that are our characters. Once I … [Read more]
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
The second of my Goodwill finds is The Lorax, a book I've wavered on buying from Target for some time now. Back in elementary school, we went somewhere for a Dr. Seuss day celebration and I got this pocket-sized copy of The Lorax, possibly my favorite of his books. In the years since, I've lost that … [Read more]
