The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
As you see, this has been a pretty cranky stretch of book reviews. I have been jumbling up my book postings on here, so I don't know if the order is accurate, but in the "real word" 7 of these last 8...
View ArticleThe Malice of Fortune
I noted in recent past reviews that I have been on cranky streak of books... just none really impressing me. Well, we have reached the pinnacle ... or should I say the nadir! But don't worry folks,...
View ArticleThis Is How You Lose Her
We are officially thru my bad book stretch. 8 of the last 9 books, I have rated 1-, 2-, or 3-stars... kinda crazy, since 4-stars by far is my most popular rating. I am pretty darn good at picking out...
View ArticleBilly Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
This next one had been on my to-be-read list for awhile, but it's nothing like Amazon putting it on the monthly $3.99 or less sale (it was actually $2.99 + tax) to move it up my list... and I am glad...
View ArticleThe End of Your Life Book Club
How could anyone who loves books not love a book that is itself so in love with books?That is the question that Will Schwalbe asks in The End of Your Life Book Club. If that's not a most rhetorical...
View ArticleTell The Wolves I'm Home
I am the wrong gender and few decades too late, but this year I seem to be channeling my inner teenage girl. Some of the best novels I have read this year have been "young-adult" fiction with a female...
View ArticleThe Middlesteins
Jami Attenberg's The Middlesteins has been getting a bit of literary buzz, but perhaps not unlike the obese protagonist - Edie Middlestein - no matter how much of this book I consumed, I was left...
View ArticleThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce's debut novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, turned into more than I thought it would. I sensed it would be the a typically quirky but quite charming English tale a la Alexander...
View ArticleThe Round House
Louise Erdrich is one of those authors I just seemed to have dodged for decades. I have very faint memories of reading one of her novels back in a Contemporary Lit college class (eons ago - as I said...
View ArticleA Hologram For The King
A Hologram For The King is my fourth Dave Eggers book. I wouldn't say I am a huge fan, but I've liked his books well enough that any new work by him would immediately on my radar. It fell down my...
View ArticleThe Yellow Birds
Lately it seems to an amazing book it has to come up unexpectedly. Big-name and/or favorite authors and/or highly anticipated books just seem to keep falling short of late. Kevin Powers' debut novel,...
View ArticleSweet Tooth
As I type out (well, for the most part "copy in") this book post, I am quite shocked to see that this was the last book I read, usually it seems as if I am books and books behind, but it is closing in...
View ArticleFlight Behavior
Happy New Year! I have done a pretty good job of keeping up with book posts this year, and that's really kind of a big deal given that it was a record-breaking reading year. There were 44 of these...
View ArticleMortality
We've reached my last book/read of 2012... and it seems kind of appropriate that it is Mortality by Christopher Hitchens. The End, indeed.While I had been familiar with Hitchens over the years, I...
View Article2012: A Year In Reading
Welcome to my 7th Annual Year in Books!(If you are interested in past years, you can conveniently find them all in Best Books Of The Year category)...As tradition dictates, here is my book cover...
View ArticleWhere'd You Go, Bernadette
It's time to start over, a brand new reading year - Happy 2013!As regulars know, I am a bit obsessed with the Tournament of Books competition. In past years, the list has been released in mid-to-late...
View ArticleBuilding Stories
Chris Ware's Building Stories is a tour de force. Ware boldly defies the digital age, by giving readers the ultimate non-ebook, and not even a book at that - but a 14-piece media experience. In a world...
View ArticleBring Up The Bodies
I had an awful lot of respect for Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's first award-winning foray into the life the of Thomas Cromwell and heavy-duty historical figures like Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. However,...
View ArticleThe Orphan Master's Son
What an odd little (well, quite big!) novel? But then again, what an odd little country North Korea is. I have had The Orphan Master's Son on my to-be-read list pretty much since it has been out (over...
View ArticleTales of the City
As a fun reading "project" for 2013, I have decided to go back and re-read Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series. The plan is to read a new installment of the original 6-book series approximately...
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