The World to Come November 9, 2007For some reason I had this minor freak-out when starting to read this book that I had somehow...
Stet October 14, 2007I’m so not smart enough to write a review of this thing. I can’t even begin to describe...
Black Dogs September 14, 2007I’m not even really sure where to begin with this one. To call it a throw-away would be...
English Passengers August 29, 2007I tend to buy my books in clusters. I’ll get super-motivated, cozy up with Amazon and just go...
Dance Dance Dance August 17, 2007Murakami is like the big dork’s Raymond Carver. In fact, I’m a giant dork for just making that...
Soon I Will Be Invincible July 15, 2007Never really being a reader of comic books, my lone exposure to superheroes and the like has come...
The Sea July 1, 2007There’s something about the way that Banville writes that just kind of casts a pall over everything. I...
Never Let Me Go June 15, 2007There’s something very something about Ishiguro’s writing. And, no, that isn’t a typo. It’s just me being indecisive...
The Inheritance of Loss June 1, 2007These Indian books kill me. If it isn’t the constant talk about pooping, it’s the amazingly confusing national...
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things May 15, 2007If you’re the type of person who looks for his books to have plots, this is not the...
Buddha’s Little Finger May 1, 2007Wow. Yikes. Um. I have completely reached the limit of my reading comprehension. Remember those ERB things you...
The Brooklyn Follies April 15, 2007Somehow you’d think with a title that this that there might be at least, like, one laugh somewhere...
Black Swan Green April 1, 2007David Mitchell is usually the master of the weird postmodern mindfuck. He somehow melds traditional storytelling with sci-fi...
On Beauty March 15, 2007After reading White Teeth I pretty much decided to read anything and everything that Zadie Smith put out....
The History of Love March 1, 2007This book is oddly similar to Krauss’ Husband’s book, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. You have dead fathers,...
Motherless Brooklyn March 1, 2007It’s as if my subconscious didn’t want me to finish this one. I was about three-quarters of the...
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close February 15, 2007I gotta say that I almost thought about buying this one in hardcover because I just couldn’t wait...
A Dangerous Man February 1, 2007The folks at Random House were nice enough to send me the second book in this trilogy, Six...