Brian K. Vaughn is one of those comicbook writers whose name I cannot speak without emitting a dreamy sigh after…
Posts tagged 2012 Books
Half-Blood Blues
After two, or maybe three false starts, I finally made it through Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues. Usually, I wouldn’t be…
The Middlesteins
On its surface The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg is the kind of the book I dismiss out of hand. Jewish…
A Wrinkle in Time
As I recently confessed over in Book Riot’s Buy, Borrow, Bypass for most of my life I thought I had…
Sad Trombone Ending
Glory Fleming is a seventeen-year-old piano prodigy living with her widower father in the Bronx. Frank is the hunky, artistic…
My Favorite Novel of 2012 (unless something changes in the next five weeks)
We’re in the waning months of 2012 and I think I’ve read what will be my favorite novel of 2012….
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story
The older I get the more I truly believe ignorance is bliss, especially if you’re the type to put heroes…
Tiny Beautiful Things
One of the best things about reading Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar…
Quiet but Mighty
One of my favorite things about being a reader is having a physical reaction to a book. Whether it’s tears…
