The novelist Arthur Phillips had me when the character Arthur Phillips mentioned the Minneapolis Star back when Minneapolis was a two-paper town. I have no idea why this small bit of Minnesota trivia charmed me…
Posts tagged 2011 Books
The 5 stages of reading Genre Fiction
I don’t often read genre fiction (mysteries, horror, sci-fi, fantasy). It’s just not my thing. I prefer fiction where the story is moved forward by characters and character development. Genre fiction, in my experience, is…
I enjoyed Mamba Point even with my ridiculous snake phobia
When you’re an adult a weird and mild form of multiple personality disorder overcomes you when you read Middle Grade Fiction. When you’re reading a really good book, in this case Mamba Point by Kurtis…
Like a drunk at a bar
It’s very weird to say you didn’t particularly care for a novel because most of the story wasn’t “real.” What? You didn’t like a fictional book because it wasn’t real? It sounds like just about…
I love Tina Fey
Tina Fey gets a lot of shit. She’s too much of a feminist, she’s not feminist enough. She’s funny, she’s not funny. The woman cannot win. The latest is that her “memoir” Bossypants isn’t revealing…
Too much ideology
I’m not sure where to begin telling you about Cara Hoffman’s novel So Much Pretty because I’m still not entirely sure how I feel about it. I picked up the novel after reading Hoffman’s Largehearted…