Whenever a book craze sweeps the nation, I feel compelled to check it out. Sometimes I am disappointed, as in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Other times, I am reasonably satisfied, as in the Twilight series or The Hunger Games trilogy. And of course, there was that one time that reading an intensely popular novel changed […]
Books
The Difficult Read
I’m reading a book right now that I know is going to take awhile to read. Not because it’s particularly lengthy, but because of the difficult subject matter. It’s about the life of U.S. Ambassador William Dodd and his family during their post in Berlin, right after the election of Hitler as chancellor, and through […]
Magazine Guilt
Like most of America, I subscribe to a lot of magazines. Here’s the current list of my subscriptions: Women’s Health Shape Self Fitness Real Simple In Style People Style Watch Fit Pregnancy The Writer And here’s the current list of titles in the ever-growing stack by my bed: Women’s Health Shape Self Fitness Real Simple […]
Every Last One
Spoiler alert: In this blog post, I intend to give you major reason not to read Every Last One, and then flip it around to tell you why you should read it anyway. Ready? I recently listened to this book on audiobook. Though beautifully written, it was, without a doubt, the most sad, depressing, difficult […]
The List I Wish I’d Made
This afternoon I stole a few minutes to wander through my local library. It’s a small branch, with the mere basics of fiction: all the classics, and the most popular books of the last 10-15 years. As I walked the aisles, titles and authors’ names jumped out at me like the formulas in A Beautiful […]
Interpreter of Maladies
I’ve been suffering a little writer’s block this week (which, ironically, I may use as a topic for a post soon) so tonight’s book recommendation will be short, sweet and to the point: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies. I started this short story collection many months ago and abandoned it after a few stories, but […]