I’ve been needing something to hold me over between trades of Saga, one of the best comic book series I’ve read in a loooooonnnnnggg time (really, since Fables decided to get really kind of boring)….
Posts tagged 2014 Books
Your Collarbones are Overrated: On ‘Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville’ by Gina Arnold
It is impossible for me to overstate the importance of Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville” to me. The music on that album is as much a part of me as my rib cage or my…
Time-Stopping Orgasms without Emotional Stakes are Kind of a Snore
It feels a little weird to have a complaint about emotional realism in a book that centers around two people who have time-stopping orgasms. And yet, here I am complaining about it. I get that…
Bark is Kind of a Bore
A new short story collection by Lorrie Moore had me giddy with anticipation when it arrived on my doorstep lo those many months ago when the arctic February winds howled and most of Minnesota was…
Midwestern Gothic
Here’s a confession: when a book’s description mentions how it takes place in 18something, my eyes immediately glaze over from anticipated boredom. Same goes for anything that takes place during any war be it Civil,…
Damn, I’m Glad I Read That Book
I picked up Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie because Jeff O’Neal at Book Riot named it his favorite book of 2013. Plus, I had never read anything by Adichie though her novels seem universally lauded….