I have a lot of little entry points into this review, so I will just say them all and think of where to go next. Tayari Jones is really really really good at narrating adolescence. The fact that no one talks about this chapter in America is an effing crime. Oddly, the books narrated by children dealing with the kidnappings and murders of their peers is the least harrowing and sad book about this set of events I’ve read/read about. Something about dealing children dealing […]
I’ll go.
This book is fine. It doesn’t really do anything wrong. Am I a little bitter than it didn’t explicitly talk about favorite movies? Of course. I, TOO!, AM A CHILD OF THE 80s! But really what it comes down to, is that the advice she gets from Peter Biskind to watch Salvador is the better advice in this book. I KNOW this is not her mission or her goal, but the 80s is chock full of amazing movies in the 80s and really this book takes […]
Ivan Nivan Movan Invanavitch Vonitsky
I do this thing where I can’t tell if I like an author. So I just keep reading. Or worse, I read a bunch of things by an author and then I can’t figure out if I like them or not because I DO like some of what they write and not others. But especially with classic literature, I struggle, because it’s hard for me to be ok liking some things a writer writes but not others. And then in Russian literature, it’s even harder […]
It’s not Da Da, but it’s not not Da Da
I found this book in a little free library, and the person who put it there also put in a bunch of Marxist critique and even writings of Marx, and it was right outside of a school playground. So I was like “Dude” because it was definitely a dude….and I took all the books and redistributed them to other Little Free Libraries in the area (Aha! Marxism!) but I kept this one. For one, I think I hate, but am interested by absurdist literature, especially […]
Ann Patchett by way of Jennifer Egan
I got this one off the library shelf (Audiobook) mostly because of the title and cover. I think I wanted to also know something about Francine Prose as an author because she’s part of the literary aether right now and was just curious in general. And because her name is Prose. The structure of this novel is sort of like a tag-team of literary connection points circulating around a specific play off-Broadway and stemming from a specific performance of that play. Mr. Monkey is the name […]
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Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
When Harry Potter 7 came out in bookstores, my brother, his wife, and I all went to the midnight release and bought three copies. We each spent the next few days reading it the same room at individual paces. Someone made a joke about a line where Harry and Ron are talking about their wands. And we sort of made out of context jokes like that for the next 3 days. This book had the same effect on me, except I definitely think this time […]
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