The character description begins, the scene pans out and already I want to shut the book covers and call it quits. I can’t even tell you how many books I’ve quit. Working at a library, I have entirely too many options to just settle. Nowadays, I will give a book 3 pages to decide whether [...]
Entry Category 'book reviews'
Book Disgust-ion
November 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Books, Review
Tags:book reviews·Books·David Sedaris·fiction·Joshua Ferris·reading
Nancy Drew vs. Lisbeth Salander
July 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Could it be a TKO? In this corner we have Nancy Drew-prudish, sensible bob, pretty investigator and in this corner we have Lisbeth Salander-daring, asymmetrical cut, sexy hacker. Both fight crime and both are young women who confront stereotypes, though in two distinct eras. I remember as I read The Secret in the Old Attic, [...]
Tags:book reviews·character analysis·mysteries·plot·summer reading
Memoir, memoir, who is the truest of them all?
May 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Books, Family, Review
How do you tell your family that you are writing about them? You’ll find a good answer to this question here at Paste. Sean Wilsey wrote his memoir Oh the Glory of it All, when he was not yet middle-aged. He comes clean, “The way most memoirists have handled still-living people has been to outlive [...]
Tags:aging·authors·book reviews·life experience·memoir·memory·writing
Word-y Foodies
January 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books, Family, Food, Review
I just finished paging through Cleaving by Julie Powell. Of late, I have been very interested in food writing and the deft way in which the author must interweave a story with an account of what was eaten. Julie Powell tries to burrow down into feeling. She definitely has left no stone unturned when examining [...]
