2010 Books Archives · I Will Dare

A Sickness in the Family

The Ushers are a family in decline. Mother Biddy’s having an affair, William’s just been kicked out of Oxford, Amy’s…

It’s hard to talk about the first twelve volumes of the Fables series for two reasons. First, it’s fraught with…

For most of the summer and fall, I was pretty sure Scott Pilgrim had wrecked me for good. I had…

My favorite New Year’s Day activity is wiping the reading slate clean and starting fresh. Every year since 2002 (and…

There’s a certain kind of glee that comes in discovering that the new writer you’ve recently fallen in love with…

Christa once said, and I can never find the original post, that she was incapable of talking about Haruki Murakami’s…

I’m a proud and vocal book abandoner. If, after giving it the official John Irving try (reading 100 pages in…

Sometimes when I read short story collections I try to figure out what the author’s thing is. By thing I…

I love rock & roll. I adore Michael Schaub. I love to read. So last month when he listed his…

For about 30 of my 38 years here on Earth, I’ve been convinced that I read Tiger Eyes by Judy…