The Circle by Dave Eggers
It has gotten a lot easier to love Dave Eggers’ fiction. I read his “memoir” and experienced...
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Month: September 2013
Happyland Giveaway
Did you read Jim Ryan’s review of J. Robert Lennon’s Happyland the other day? If not,...
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Childhood of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee
Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee’s new novel Childhood of Jesus takes its main characters Simon...
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When We Fell In Love – Erin Byrne
This painting from 1968, captures the moment I fell in love with reading and writing: a...
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Happyland by J. Robert Lennon
The idea of a fantastically wealthy doll mogul making a snap decision to transform a small,...
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Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives edited by Sarah Weinman
Sarah Weinman, queen of mystery and crime fiction reviews, has done a great thing. In this...
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The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Everything living thing has been given a signature of what it is meant to do on planet earth....
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The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook
Rhidian Brook’s novel, The Aftermath, is an engaging journey, driven by emotionally charged...
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Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
With the recent passing of Elmore Leonard, it is apt that Pynchon has chosen a quote from...
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MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is one of my top three favorite authors. She is frighteningly intelligent, has a...
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Morphine By Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov is a landmark twentieth century writer. You could be excused from knowing that if...
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The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Earlier this summer, I began Midnight’s Children. It was tough going and I spent as much time in...
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Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
The best part of Five Star Billionaire is the end because of a surprise plot twist that I did not...
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’90s Island by Marty Beckerman
Merriam-Webster defines a novella as “a work of fiction intermediate in length and complexity...
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