Yesterday I got home from work around 4:30. I was about 300-pages deep into A Little Life and wanted to keep going. Just before midnight, I closed the book. This is a 736 page novel and it was then, amidst the crumpled tissues and empty whiskey glass, that I realized I never even ate dinner. This … [Read more]
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Sh*t Just Got Real
Where I was feeling that perhaps after book two of this series I was going to let it go, I couldn't without finding out what happens to the kids trapped in the FAYZ (Fallout Alley Youth Zone). I'm glad that I didn't stop reading the series. This book surpassed book two by a mile...but man, did it … [Read more]
A Different Life in America
A friend of mine introduced me to Ta-Nehisi Coates with The Beautiful Struggle, a book I found both moving and eye-opening. When I started seeing Between the World and Me (2015) on bookshelves, I knew I'd be reading it. The Beautiful Struggle was a memoir of Coates's life, growing up in the … [Read more]
Welcome to Shondaland
I remember being a freshman in college and gathering at the big screen TV in my floor's common area to watch Grey's Anatomy with a dozen other girls on Thursday nights. After "ghost Denny" my infatuation with Seattle Grace dwindled. A few years ago my husband and I started at the beginning (on … [Read more]
Further Misadventures of an Idiot Girl
Laurie Notaro's background is in journalism. Her first book, The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club, was a collection of columns originally written for an Arizona newspaper. Autobiography of a Fat Bride, her second book, continues in that same vein, with a collection of short essays. They focus … [Read more]
Beautifully Sad (and Maybe Too Much So)
Sputnik Sweetheart is one of the most beautifully written books I’ve ever reluctantly finished. Murakami (and a lot of credit for this goes to the book’s Japanese-to-English translator Philip Gabriel) has a true gift for prose and it’s that single characteristic more than anything else that … [Read more]