“We weren’t ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves – surprise! – we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way.” A lot of the reviews I read about Gone Girl boiled down to: this book was really well written but I still hated everything about it. I can see that. Nick and Amy, the married main characters of the story, are both horrible, despicable people. Really. I’ve rarely hated a character as much as I hated these two. Amy Dunne […]
The Kid by Dan Savage
I really, really liked this book. If you have ever read an article by Dan Savage, and found yourself shocked or disgusted, then do not read this book. If frank descriptions of sex acts, issues with adopting “damaged goods kids” or the various reasons people procreate (Savage’s main reason – or so he claims – was the excuse to get fat, which I totally understand) offend you, then do not read this book. The man does not pull punches. I personally found his honesty incredibly […]
Looking for Alaska by John Green
“I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.” Like Caitlin_G mentioned in her review of An Abundance of Katherines, I have unnaturally high expectations of John Green due to reading The Fault in Our Stars before any of his other books. […]
It’s All Relative by Wade Rouse
“We’re human. We all occasionally wet ourselves. No one is really better than anyone else. We’re just all trying to make it through the year as best we can. We screw up sometimes. We succeed sometimes. We laugh. We cry. We go on.” I read a lot of memoirs, mostly because my standards for what I will read are very low. The author doesn’t need to be famous. I don’t need to know anything about them prior to reading. I do prefer them to be […]
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
I love Michael Chabon’s books. I really do. This is a totally biased, wonder-struck review of a novel that I probably wouldn’t have liked nearly as much if anyone else’s name had been on the cover. But the cover says Chabon, and therefore I will sing its praises. “When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another’s skin, noticed a shade of yellow, even simply sat, with greater lust and […]
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
This book caught my eye due to its title: John Henry Days. My sons’ names are John and Henry. So I picked it up at Half Price Books, skimmed the excellent reviews on the back and tossed it into my cart. Shouldn’t have. While there were a few interesting parts, overall it was a difficult book to read, one that I completed in about twice the amount of time that it should have taken, simply because I didn’t feel like picking it up. The writing […]
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