If Salman Rushdie’s Ground Beneath Her Feet had been, oh, about 400 pages instead of 592 pages, I’d probably have loved the crap out of it. It’s got everything I love in a book: a…
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Snore Arabia
When you tell people you’re spending a majority of your summer reading Rock & Roll novels they immediately tell you to read Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta. Because it was a Rock & Roll novel…
Really Gone
After reading Christa’s review of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. I became a little obsessed with reading the book. At first I thought it’d be the book I’d use to break in my brand-new library card….
Life Goes On
It’s only July but I have to put the rest of the books of 2012 on notice. You’re gonna have to work really hard to knock The Age of Miracles from the ‘Most Favorite Novel…
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…
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…