I’m a bit behind in my reviews. Between drama with my car (as in: the engine was shot after a mere four months, and now The Chancellor and I had to scrounge for a new one), and preparation for my dissertation defense in about 2 and a half weeks now, life’s been a little too crazy to blog about books. Thankfully, I’m reading up a storm, regardless. The details may be a little bit fuzzy, but I’m going to try my very best. That’s why […]
The Uncaged Tiger
My friend C and I exchange a lot of book ideas. We started our PhDs in the same class, we ended up choosing the same literary subfield, and we have the same dissertation director. She’s read some of my primary texts, and I realized I’ve not read all of hers. The White Tiger was in her list, plus I needed to up my Anglophone game. So I decided to give it a try. Balram Halwai, the White Tiger of this book, is a young entrepreneur […]
A gay fantasia, indeed.
Two or three years ago, The Chancellor showed me the HBO film Angels in America, and I was intrigued, saddened, and deeply moved all at once. And then PBS aired a special of the UK’s National Theatre performances, which included a scene of Dominic Cooper and Andrew Scott (Moriarty!) performing a scene from the play. The special made me really curious about all the contemporary American and British plays out there–we’ve all read Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill and Tom Stoppard, so I thought it […]
A Blazing World of Feminism, Art, and Masks
My friend M has been at me to read Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World for a few months. She even texted me at 8 am on a Sunday morning, “You really need to read this book. The fact that I am texting you this early is a sign.” I had read The Summer without Men two years ago and loved it, so I was willing to be indulgent. Boy, I am so glad I finally cracked it open. I devoured it in less than three […]
A complex, gender-neutral protagonist in a quasi-dystopian murder mystery? Sign me up!
I follow Patrick Rothfuss on Goodreads, and I notice that his tastes in books tend to the sci-fi and fantasy, whereas I’m more selective in those genres. Yet some of his high recommendations catch my eye, and John Scalzi’s Lock In was one of them. I was curious by the premise, and it seemed to go along with my reading of dystopian and survival literature. The setting and premise are complex but highly interesting. A virus/pandemic has swept through the United States (of course) and […]
Love is the greatest demon.
I read One Hundred Years of Solitude when I was 19, because it was on the Oprah list, and I was still fairly new to adult fiction (true story). Becoming an English major unleashed me in college, and though I was not quite “mature” enough to really grasp the book, it’s stayed with me in the last eleven years. So I was delighted when A’s husband B choose Of Love and Other Demons as our February selection for my book club. We tend to read […]
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