Greetings! Hard to believe, but there is only 1 week left before our summer reading adventure ends. For me, I still have 1 book to go, which I am not even sure of what I will read yet. Any suggestions? If you are so inclined, feel free to get some posts up before then- would
This book, Basic Paper Airplane, came to me in the mail yesterday from a friend. It is written by his friend, a former couchsurfer, which is the same way I met Paul, who sent this to me. I really enjoyed the writing here, though probably due to the length. I think the prose would have
I picked up this book while traveling in Ireland earlier this year. I love cruising around bookstores just about anywhere I go, and this little book caught my attention. I had started reading it while traveling, but never gave it full attention until this morning. 2016 is the 100-year anniversary of the Easter Rising, a
I picked up this book at a book sale while traveling in Woodland, California this past May/June. I was advised by a dear friend to read this and I appreciate her recommendation. It is always fun to read books that your friends recommend because it gives you a little insight into their reading style, and
This summer, I was lucky enough to be able to travel to Paris for a week, a long-deferred dream of mine ever since I was in college and had to give up a chance to spend my junior year in France. I was actually invited by my 20 year-old daughter who’d been in Paris for
Ben Lerner’s 10:04 is not at all a standard point A to point B novel, and yet this deeply self-referential work, circular in structure and layered with multiple narratives and characters that appear to be both fictional and real is generous and engaging: one never gets the sense that Lerner wants to alienate the reader
This book was lent to me by Gina, another reader on our blog. She is a big fan of fantasy and I have little experience with the genre, so this quick book was a great fit. I really enjoyed it! Auri is a girl who lives in the underworld and the book is spent going
I have heard several people refer to Snow as their favorite novel of all time, so I figured it was worth checking out! I picked this up at a used bookstore somewhere in Seattle a few months ago. I really enjoyed Pamuk’s prose and will look forward to reading more of his work sometime in the
I finally got the chance to read Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies. I’d had this book on my must-read list for almost a year, and I was determined to find the time to read it though. And I was not disappointed: this is a magisterial novel, full of the grand emotions and differing perceptions that
It is Monday morning and I have spent the past few hours getting through the last handful of pages of The Stand by Stephen King, which I wrote about briefly (the first half) about a week ago. I have been reading this thing day and night, and am happy to be able to move on.
Seasonal Reading 