Me Talk Pretty One Day December 1, 2006I resisted reading this thing for quite a while. Honestly it wasn’t until I lost a book on...
Oh the Glory of It All November 1, 2006It’s amazing how the voice in a lot of these modern memoirs sounds the same. It’s kind of...
Call It Sleep November 1, 2006I’ve had a pretty bad track record of late in terms of enjoying “classic” pieces of literature. I...
A Wild Sheep Chase October 15, 2006It’s clear that this is the same man who wrote The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. The pervasive themes of...
Man Walks Into a Room October 15, 2006I had no idea that Nicole Krauss was the wife of Everything Is Illuminated author, Jonathan Safran Foer, before...
It’s Superman! October 1, 2006I honestly never asked myself about Superman’s high school years, nor how he came to be a reporter...
Cloud Atlas September 15, 2006This guy is so talented it’s ridiculous. He’s like Philip K. Dick without the mental problems–or if he...
The Mezzanine July 15, 2006In college we did some pretty nerdy stuff. For instance, we named all of the rooms in our...
A Long Way Down July 1, 2006Suicide is not really that funny–at least not in that haha kind of way. It is, however, the...
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler June 15, 2006I’m pretty sure this is the first novel I’ve read translated from Italian. Apparently American and British authors...
Flicker June 1, 2006This was one of those books that sounded endlessly entertaining in its description, but started to pale when...
Disgrace May 15, 2006Every time I talk to a friend going to Africa on safari I worry whether or not he...
Freakonomics May 15, 2006The pun title and the whole sliced apple with the orange inside on the cover didn’t exactly inspire...
The Fortress of Solitude May 1, 2006To call this book vaguely racist would be a stretch, but it does seem that our author writes...
Crossing California May 1, 2006Despite the mystique of California in both songs and movies, the love affair hasn’t made its way to...
Possible Side Effects April 1, 2006With the controversy that swirled around the revelation that A Million Little Pieces was more fiction than not...
Under the Volcano March 1, 2006I seriously had to fight not to put this one down. It has to be called a ”classic”...
Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Hustler January 15, 2006Who knew I would have so many connections to a book about hip-hop and drug dealing? My first...