These are the books I have been too lazy to write proper reviews of; I’ll list them for now, and if I get ambitious I’ll add some comments later. Moon Palace, Paul Auster Dead End Gene Pool, Wendy Burden (technically, I did NOT really read this; I found it revolting and stopped, which is something [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Catch-up: Books I’ve Read So Far This Year (with a Little Overlap from Last Year and Not Counting the Ones That Are Reviewed Elsewhere in This Blog)
Posted: July 28, 2011 in Book review1
Since moving to New Jersey, we have been pleased, surprised, and delighted by the astonishing range of opportunities to hear live music — from the buskers on the boardwalk to the jam-packed concert halls. But our favorite is the most unusual (to us at least): small-town churches and middle schools hosting truly remarkable artists and [...]
If Final Demands could be suspended pinata-like above me, and I given the sharpest tools of literary criticism with which to tackle it, I still don’t think I would yield more than a few handfuls of treasure. This book, the third in the Glittering Prizes trilogy (the second of which, Fame and Fortune, I wrote [...]
