“Have I Got a Guy for You” edited by Alix Strauss
Have you ever wished that “Sex and the City” was a book (okay, other than the actual book called “Sex and the City“)? If so, perhaps you would enjoy “Have I Got a Guy for You.”
“Have I Got a Guy for You,” is a collection [...]
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides’ “Middlesex” is another beautifully written book. ‘Cal’ Stephanides, the narrator, is the intersex grandchild of Greek immigrants. This was our book for book club this month, and all of us expected that the entire book would basically be about Calliope/Cal dealing with the switch from female to male. Instead, the [...]
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Release date: August 5, 2008
Everyone has had the experience. You’re sitting in traffic forever, seemingly for no reason. Suddenly, up ahead, you can see cars start to move again. As you get up to that point, you realize that there has been an horrific car accident on the side of the [...]
I read 14 books in May. I likely would have read more, had it not been for the reading ennui I experienced near the beginning of the month and the resulting theme read of some long books. If I hadn’t had two four-hour plane rides and a fair amount of time in airports and on [...]
What is reading, anyway? Novels, comics, graphic novels, manga, e-books, audiobooks — which of these is reading these days? Are they all reading? Only some of them? What are your personal qualifications for something to be “reading” — why? If something isn’t reading, why not? Does it matter? Does it impact your desire to sample [...]
Storm Over Morocco
Frank Romano
ISBN 9781934209431, $17.99, Publication Date February 3, 2007
Reviewed by Jen Cardwell for Reader Views 05/08
Travel Dysfunction
3 Stars
Frank Romano tells the story of his youth and his attempts to find himself in “Storm Over Morocco.” For quite a while I wondered why exactly he chose to write this book and tell this story, [...]
“How many books do you have cataloged in your LibraryThing account? How do you decide what to include- everything you have, everything you’ve read- and are there things you leave off?”
After going through all of my books with a printed list of my library, I was finally able to eliminate the books I sold back [...]
I’ve never heard of this book, but it doesn’t seem too far off:
You’re Loosely Based!
by Storey Clayton
While most people haven’t heard of you, you’re a really good and
interesting person. Rather clever and witty, you crack a lot of jokes about the world
around you. You do have a serious side, however, where your interest covers the [...]
Post 88:
Have you ever had a book that actually FORCED you to read it? More than persuaded, more than compelled, but grabbed you by the collar and forced your face into its pages?
That is what Andrew Davidson’s first novel “The Gargoyle” is currently doing to me. Honestly, I’m surprised the book allowed me [...]
The Aviary Gate by Katie Hickman
”The Aviary Gate” is a dual time period work of historical fiction. The majority of the plot takes place in Istanbul, both in the present day and in the year 1599. The present-day protaganist is a graduate student, Elizabeth Staveley, working on her thesis studying captivity narratives from the Ottoman [...]
