Book Reviews & The Written Word
Without the Written Word, books wouldn't even exist.
From the category archives:
Feed, by M.T. Anderson This is a book that, since it was published in 2002, I have given as a gift every year. And I will continue to do so until the curmudgeon in me takes over and I stop giving people anything, ever, at all. This is the beacon of all YA fiction, the [...]
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Thanksgiving is coming to a close which means: Leftovers Reading while eating leftovers Reading while eating leftovers in the reclined position, Roman-style This year I have an old Margaret Atwood to peruse, The Robber Bride, and a 2004 classic by Wolfe to re-absorb, I Am Charlotte Simmons. ‘Tis the day to devour good reads. How [...]
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I’m pretty excited. The National Book Awards have announced their finalists and I’m head over heels. I love book awards. They are like the Idiot’s Guide to Choosing Which Book to Read Next. The National Book Award’s 2010 Finalists in Fiction (because that is all I care about) Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter [...]
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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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