Book Reviews & The Written Word
Without the Written Word, books wouldn't even exist.
From the category archives:
The Bone People was selected as the book in my vacation carry-on for a couple of reasons:
The great cover. Sometimes a book can be evaluated by its design, and Penguin Classics is having a heyday with their Penguin Ink series to celebrate their 75th Anniversary. You got me Penguin. You always do.
All those awards. Little [...]
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There are times, unavoidably, that I pick up a book that is terrible. You’ve read about a couple of those books here (do I need to remind you of the staggering mess wrought by the burning flames of failure that is John Irving’s latest?).
Then there are the books that are just so utterly awful [...]
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Ian Lurie is good for three things.
First, he knows 83% of everything to know about the internet. (If you’re thinking that 83% of everything to know is sort of high, but not high enough to write a book about internet safety, you should know that there is no one in existence that knows more than [...]
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This is the first year that Father’s Day shopping will be a breeze. Because even if your dad is a golf pro, executive AND gadget hoarder all mixed into one, sometimes Sky Mall just can’t deliver. Written Word is here to help.
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There are a few things I love about Margaret Atwood:
1. The fact that, without her, there would be no The Blind Assassin, or Oryx and Crake, or A Handmaid’s Tale, and that very terrible idea is enough to ensure my long-lasting devotion.
2. How she isn’t confined to one voice, or one time period or even [...]
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