Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
CBR14 BINGO: Heart Square (And so begins one of my favorite times of the year: CBR Bingo! This is a literal “heart” square filler as every character with a heart has it broken.) I wanted to like this one more than I did. It is a beautifully written novel about love that somehow lacks warmth. … [Read more]
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
On a windy night, at the foot of a set of stairs in a run-down mansion buried deep in the Scottish highlands, the body of a young woman is found. Her name is Janet; she’s dressed in her mother’s black lace ballgown. Outside, in the stormy skies, a jackdaw flies in search of her. He seems to be the … [Read more]
Dune by Frank Herbert
I re-read Dune by Frank Herbert this year because a member of my work book club selected it. The rules of work book club are: we pick a book that has a movie or television adaptation, so that we can still hang out and gossip with the folks in the book club who inevitably don’t read the book. Those … [Read more]
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch
CBR14Bingo - Verse The Hatred of Poetry This book is just fantastic. I've never not thoroughly enjoyed any of Ben Lerner's books (and maybe one day I will read some of his poetry). He takes the topic of why people hate poetry and thinks through the wheres and whys of it -- that it's old, that … [Read more]
The Runaway Jury by John Grisham
CBR Bingo 14 - Holiday This book was on the shelf on my AirBnb this past week when I really needed something, not very taxing, to read and my books were failing me. I read this on vacation so if I liked it more than I might otherwise, blame that. I picked this up, had no clue what it … [Read more]
The People of Paper by Salvador Plascensia
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Mountain by Cixin Liu
The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
First Person Singular by Haruki Murakmi
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson
Homecoming by Eddie Huang
The Matchlock Rifle by Walter Edmonds
Two Logs Crossing by Walter Edmonds
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Mortality - 4/5 Stars This is a partial memoir and final notes first published by Vanity Fair and then in book form from the final days of Christopher Hitchens. There's a part in the middle of every thing where someone tells Hitchens something like "God works in mysterious ways" and Hitchens … [Read more]
