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Date Archives August 2016
All the Whining with None of the Story
When the first six or seven chapters of Jennifer Close’s The Hopefuls were nothing but backstory and a comparison of…
Doing Nothing Else But Reading This Book is Cool Too
I tend to avoid essay collections/memoirs by bloggers. This is a little strange, considering I’m an aspiring author with a…
Reading About Awful People
Fern and Edgar Keating are awful people. They are spoiled, wealthy brats who meet, marry, have three children, and live…
Backstories Better Than the Plot
There is a scene in the beginning of Cristina Henriquez’s The Book of Unknown Americans that shook me. It’s one…
The Woman Upstairs
Nora Eldridge, the main character in Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs is a pissed. The late thirty-something third grade teacher…
Anti-Bummers: Because August is the February of Summer
I sent The Beast to the potential agent yesterday. It’s as good as I can make it right now. I…