I finished thirtysomething books this year. Some of them came out this year, but not all of them. I’ve decided…
Posts tagged 2014 Books
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Here’s my advice when it comes to Karen Joy Fowler’s fabulous We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, don’t read anything…
Very Much Meh
Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven a post-apocalyptic tale of a theatre troupe is a much-beloved National Book Award Finalist…
Cranky Old Lady Reads a Book Full of Shitty Cliches
Epistolary novels are my genre kryptonite. I find them hard to resist and even harder to quit even when the…
How to Build a Not Quite Successful Novel About a Girl
Up until my friend Kurtis read a NY Times review of How to Build a Girl, I had successfully avoided…
Wolf in White WTF?
I’ve spent the entire morning reading review after review of John Darnielle’s Wolf in White Van, the debut novel from…
More Bitter Than Sweet
It is only now as I type that I realize I read two books back-to-back with the word ‘sweet’ in…
Pretty Sweet
My favorite part of Fast Food Nation when I read it back in 2001 was the parts about the flavor…
The Magic Passed Me By
Celeste Ng’s debut novel Everything I Never Told You has garnered rave reviews all over the place. I know this…
Pants on Fire
Some of my favorite reading experiences involve reaching that tipping point in a book where you make a conscious decision…