Favorite weird tv show: Portlandia Favorite weird tv show I only heard about this year: Look Around You Favorite Pulitzer Prize-winning book that I read this year: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Favorite book I only heard about this year: On Love by Alain de Botton Favorite music site that...
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A List of 2011 Favorites
2SR: The Boyfriend List by E Lockhart (Ruby Oliver Series)
E. Lockhart probably wrote The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs, and me, Ruby Oliver for teenage girls. However, with all of Ruby’s quirks, her real-life troubles with popularity and dropped friendships, girls of all ages – even almost 30-year olds! – will want to read more.
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2 Sentence Review: Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
Portnoy’s Complaint, a novel by Philip Roth, should be mandatory reading at all synagogues during Bar or Bat Mitzvah training. Actually, it should be mandatory reading for anyone who can relate to this excerpt from page 99-100 in my copy (ISBN 0-679-75645-0), the inclusion of which makes this review longer than 2 sentences. Pianist!...
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2 Sentence Review: Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
More of a character exploration than a novel, David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green) takes us through the minds of a terrorist, a jazz-loving adolescent, a spirit, and an aged, female entrepreneur in his debut, Ghostwritten. Not as polished as his later novels, Mitchell’s Japanese influence still peeks through as he threads the...
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The Mustache Diaries: Day 8
The Earth doesn't revolve around the sun, but rather the Universe revolves around humans. Literally. Cause we named that bitch.
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2 Sentence Review: The Passage by Justin Cronin
When I first picked up The Passage by Justin Cronin – one of the summer’s hottest reads – the eerie, almost-post-apolocalyptic world gave me hope that one of the summer’s hottest reads wasn’t simply another gimmicky vampire novel. That’s why I was so disappointed with the last 200 pages when it seemed like Justin...
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The Mustache Diaries: Day 2
But take heart, my friends, nothing is permanent.
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Reading for Book Club: Going Public with a Private Pastime
When I read alone, the only English major who could argue or fling around words like misogyny or existentialism would be me... and then I'd really be a pretentious asshole, wouldn't I? A pretentious asshole who also talks to herself.
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2 Sentence Review: The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is a Pulitzer Prize winning book that teaches you as much about Dominican history and the human condition as it does comic books and funny Spanish swear words. Meant especially for anyone who gravitates towards the rhythms of spoken word or who likes...
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2 Sentence Review: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
When the more avid lit fan thinks of David Sedaris, they tend to think of writing that floors them with laughter, products of his caustic wit and sophisticated humor, traits that people have started to take for granted in Sedaris’s work, especially when they review his book “Me Talk Pretty One Day” as “his most sidesplitting work...
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