Colin Singleton is a recently-graduated high schooler/former child prodigy who has just been dumped by Katherine. The nineteenth Katherine he has dated. He calls her K-19. Hasan is Colin’s Muslim best friend who convinces him…
Posts tagged 2011 Books
A romance & a ghost story
Long about Halloween my twitter pal @winnerbowzer and I had a twitter discussion about scary books. I told her about how Blackbriar scared the crap out of me. She told me that the scariest book…
2 parts SVH + 1 part WTF
When Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later arrived on my doorstep Monday afternoon, I was more than a little excited. It was the first time in my, er 26-year Sweet Valley career that I didn’t…
O Swamplandia!
Endings are hard. As a writer I’ve never managed to write a decent one. I blame that on Journalism school and inverted pyramid where we were taught to sort of quit rather than bring a…
V for a vague sense of admiration
After abandoning Watchmen and muddling through V for Vendetta I’ve come to the conclusion that Alan Moore is just not for me. I feel a little bad about this. Many people whose opinion I respect…
Patti Smith’s rose-colored glasses
There is an atmosphere of misty, pink-colored romance that seeps from Patti Smith’s National Book Award-winning memoir Just Kids, that quickly envelops you when you read it. This mist transports you to another place and…