Posts tagged Fiction
This book is Fritos. I prefer Cheetos.
This was my first Dan Brown experience, brought about by a member of my Rock & Roll Bookclub who has spent much time studying Dante’s Divine Comedy, the book at the middle of Inferno. With…
Not so easy to dismiss
I was pretty tempted to dismiss Adelle Waldman’s The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. as one of those annoying, pointless books steeped in its own Brooklynness and thus published because if there’s anything Brooklyn writers…
We Sinners
The Rovaniemi family of Michigan are the stars of Hannah Pylväinen’s “novel” We Sinner. What’s with the quotes? They might have slapped the label novel on the cover of this one but it sure as…
Porky’s Meets Snidely Whiplash
So, Tampa by Alissa Nutting, as far as I can tell, is the buzz book of the summer. A young, beautiful married woman takes a job as a middle school English teacher so she can…
Let the Dark Flower Blossom
I would like to state for the record that if I had to crawl across a desert of broken glass to read a new Norah Labiner book, I totally would. There is something about her…