The Ushers are a family in decline. Mother Biddy’s having an affair, William’s just been kicked out of Oxford, Amy’s waging a battle with their father over his refusal to invest in her architecture firm,…
Posts tagged 2010 Books
A list about Fables
It’s hard to talk about the first twelve volumes of the Fables series for two reasons. First, it’s fraught with spoilers. To mention what happens in, say, volume 6 might spoil the shit out of…
So glad they didn’t live happily ever after
For most of the summer and fall, I was pretty sure Scott Pilgrim had wrecked me for good. I had picked up and abandoned a ton of graphic novels. None of them had the right…
2010 in the books — now with pie charts!
My favorite New Year’s Day activity is wiping the reading slate clean and starting fresh. Every year since 2002 (and due to some weird WordPress glitch I’ve had to start another list) I’ve kept track…
This ain’t no Sweet Valley
There’s a certain kind of glee that comes in discovering that the new writer you’ve recently fallen in love with has another book you can read. We need a work for this. When I was…
In love with ‘Rat Girl’
Christa once said, and I can never find the original post, that she was incapable of talking about Haruki Murakami’s writing without breaking into an interpretive dance. That’s kind of how I feel about Kristin…
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Sometimes when I read short story collections I try to figure out what the author’s thing is. By thing I mean the big issue they address in their writing. While it’s easy to extrapolate from…
Not so much with the rocking
I love rock & roll. I adore Michael Schaub. I love to read. So last month when he listed his five favorite rock & roll novels, I tossed up some heavy metal fingers and shouted…
Tigers Eyes are not, in fact, Silver Eyes
For about 30 of my 38 years here on Earth, I’ve been convinced that I read Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume. I read a lot of Judy Blume when I was a kid. Who didn’t?…