Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus is a novel in three parts, a very common and standard thing with regard to form and execution. It is a story of adolescence and a trouble family,…
Swamplandia!
So this is a book that got a lot of buzz a few years back. It took me a while to get to it. It took me a while to…
bone -Yrsa Daley-Ward
My fiancee found this particular collection on Amazon, and recommended it highly. I’ve been reading a lot more contemporary poetry in the last few years, but it’s still very much…
Dave Eggers’s “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” and another incarnation of my cynical misanthropy
I didn’t like this book. I found it irritating, twee, and everything wrong with the post-Wallace obsession over authenticity. I became irritated multiple times while reading it. This does not…
A River Runs Through It and USFS 1919
I read these two novellas back-to-back, in an anthology that also featured the wonderfully named short story “Logging and Pimping and ‘Your Pal, Jim’”. A River Runs Through It is…
Reading Log: Paul Harding’s Tinkers
Tinkers by Paul Harding Tinkers is a short book, but it was hard to get through. One might be tempted to call the prose purple if it weren’t…