Year in Reading
December 17, 2012
A Year in Reading: Nichole Bernier 1
by Nichole Bernier
I love a book that beats me up a little, makes the monkey mind sit still and show respect.
December 16, 2012
A Year in Reading: Elizabeth Minkel 1
by Elizabeth Minkel
It’s the sort of book that turns you into an evangelist, in an almost embarrassing way, like, reaching into your purse to wave a copy in peoples’ faces when someone casually mentions, “I hear you’re writing about cricket?”
December 16, 2012
A Year in Reading: Emily M. Keeler 3
by Emily M. Keeler
Some magic thing is transferred from the page to your mind, and room is made for the richness of a new feeling or thought.
December 16, 2012
A Year in Reading: Michael Bourne 0
by Michael Bourne
Flynn is especially good at creating damaged, dangerous women whose deeply imagined inner lives break your heart even as the characters create havoc in the lives of the people around them.
December 15, 2012
A Year in Reading: Christian Lorentzen 1
by Christian Lorentzen
The plot involves a penthouse in a skyscraper, an oil fortune, a motorcycle accident, dancing in bars, taking pills, and having sex outside.
December 15, 2012
A Year in Reading (And Not): Mark O’Connell 1
by Mark O'Connell
I’m always buying books on the basis that they are exactly the books I should be reading, while knowing that the likelihood of my ever starting them, let alone finishing them, is vanishingly small. I have no idea how many works of academic literary criticism I have bought on this basis, but it is, I fear, a number approaching shitloads.