Wade Salem is a drifty, drug-dealing, storytelling, sometime musician. He’s fascinating, if you can experience him from a distance. He’s not the man you’d want as your father-figure, which is the case for the unnamed…
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The Ground Beneath Her Feet
If Salman Rushdie’s Ground Beneath Her Feet had been, oh, about 400 pages instead of 592 pages, I’d probably have loved the crap out of it. It’s got everything I love in a book: a…
Snore Arabia
When you tell people you’re spending a majority of your summer reading Rock & Roll novels they immediately tell you to read Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta. Because it was a Rock & Roll novel…
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I don’t often ask you, darling ones, readers of I Will Dare to do stuff. Well, there was that time I begged you to vote for brownies back during The Great Pie v. Brownie War…
Really Gone
After reading Christa’s review of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. I became a little obsessed with reading the book. At first I thought it’d be the book I’d use to break in my brand-new library card….
Life Goes On
It’s only July but I have to put the rest of the books of 2012 on notice. You’re gonna have to work really hard to knock The Age of Miracles from the ‘Most Favorite Novel…