I’ve fallen off the graphic novel bandwagon. Hard. It kind of hurts. I miss graphic novels, but I’m sick of all the dudeness in the graphical realm. That’s putting it mildly. It’s the kind of…
Posts tagged 2012 Books
Tales from the Commune
There were times in the midst of reading Arcadia by Lauren Groff where I thought to myself, “I would totally love to live on a commune.” But then I would close the cover of the…
Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal?
I remember the moment Jeanette Winterson entered my life. It was the summer of 1995, upstairs in a dusty used-bookstore called The Book Peddler in downtown Eau Claire, Wisconsin. I was lost somewhere in the…
Cleverness leaves me cold
There’s something disconcerting about disliking a book where a child suffers horribly. It makes you feel like a heartless monster. But here I am, not liking Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman. In this case, I don’t…
The Snooze of An Ending
First, I will admit that I’m virtually the only person on the entire planet who did not adore Julian Barnes’