I kicked my reading New Year off by turning to a longtime favorite, Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. This is a book I’m pretty sure I discovered in the dusty upstairs of The Book Peddler,…
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Wrapped Up in Books 2014: Superlatives
I finished thirtysomething books this year. Some of them came out this year, but not all of them. I’ve decided not to concern myself with the date of such things. Art endures and is not…
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Here’s my advice when it comes to Karen Joy Fowler’s fabulous We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, don’t read anything about it at all. Skip the jacket copy, the blurbs, every review, including this one,…
Very Much Meh
Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven a post-apocalyptic tale of a theatre troupe is a much-beloved National Book Award Finalist that seems to make people incoherent with swoony love. However, I don’t get the adoration….
Cranky Old Lady Reads a Book Full of Shitty Cliches
Epistolary novels are my genre kryptonite. I find them hard to resist and even harder to quit even when the going is not so great. This is the only reason I can give for finishing…
13 Things About Rock & Roll Bookclub
Nobody can remember how long we’ve been meeting. Heather thought it was gonna be ten years in 2015, but Wolfdogg & I were all “Nuh-uh” since our 10th Friendiversary was on November 4th of 5th,…