I have a tendency to blog more about bands even though I am always reading one or more books. If you would like to read a somewhat concise review of any of the following titles, click the title of the blog and scroll down ‘till you find what you are looking for. RUNNING WITH SCISSORS [...]
I spent my childhood about 2 hours from the Canadian border in upstate NY. It was four hours to Toronto (give or take a little depending on border traffic; my dad often timed it) and 5 hours to Ottawa. I often forgot where I could get vinegar for my french fries and which penny was [...]
This book is excellent. I haven’t felt this emotional about a book since I read Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. May I tell you that I actually ended the book in tears. It’s perhaps one of the saddest stories to ever be created. Max is a person who ages in reverse, which is to say that [...]
It seems there’s something about both Japanese literature and art that really affects me emotionally. In terms of literature, Japanese authors just seem to have such a good sense of flow and almost lyrical poetry in prose format. That being said, I really enjoyed this collection of stories that, as Yoshimoto explains in the afterward, [...]
I’ll be honest. I’m behind again on my book blogs. I have three more to blog about and each of them deserve their own blog so here goes. Set in what I am guessing is a place you might not find marked on any map, the suburban town of Hell, New York, The Silk Road [...]
Did I say I was going to get better at blogging about book after I finished them? sorry. HEAVEN LAKE by John Dalton CRAWLING AT NIGHT by Nani Power THAT EYE, THE SKY by Tim Winton HEAVEN LAKE by John Dalton I didn’t really enjoy reading this book too much but mom had loaned it [...]
okay so I’m gonna really try from now on to blog about a book right after I finish it so that I’m not doing three all at once. Where do I start? This is the second work of Mitchell’s I’ve read (the first being Ghostwritten) and I think I actually liked Ghostwritten better. I’d heard [...]
10/10 There are very few films in which I enjoy the film more than the novel it’s based on. This would be one of them. I deliberated about going to this film for a while because I’m always a little worried that a film based on a book I’ve read is going to destroy some [...]
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Mark Haddon THE ONLY GOOD THING ANYONE HAS EVER DONE by Sandra Newman THE COLUMNIST by Jeffrey Frank THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Mark Haddon I found this book to be a fairly accurate portrayl of a teenager with Asperger’s [...]
I must be disturbed…no really. I mean, yeah I have this whole political thing of wanting to support independent places anyways but well, it goes beyond all that just a bit. The truth is this: chain stores make me nervous. I went to one last weekend (you get these weird points for paying your credit [...]