Posts Tagged ‘ Book review ’

Spaceman Blues by Brian Francis Slattery With an orgy of adjectives and one billion different characters, Slattery’s love/superhero/survivalist novel about a man searching for his lost lover in a colorfully futuristic New York will set your hair on fire with the sheer volume of verbiage.  Not often does an author fail to repeat themselves...
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Craig Thompson’s Blankets depicts the wonderful confusion of falling in love for the first time.  Awkward and romantic, his writing and artwork both enchant.
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After Oskar Schell walked me around New York City, I closed my copy of Jonathan Safran-Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and wrote this note on the inside cover, “a must read.” Idiosyncratic characters, multiple perspectives, drawings, colored mark-up, quirky dialogue, an honest reaction to a catastrophic event (9/11), what more could you want...
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Free-Range Chickens by Simon Rich The youngest writer in SNL history puts together a collection of 1-2 page skits (“What I imagined the people around me were saying when I was 13,” and “What I want my tombstone to say when I die of encephalitis next week”) that he thought would be funny.  They are.
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I like to think of myself as relatively well-read. In high school, I had to read most books required for high...
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There are some people I know who love to read books about India. The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies, The God of Small Things, The Inheritance of Loss, A Fine Balance…. I’m not one of them. (Heck, I’ve never even seen Slumdog Millionaire.) There are also some people I know who love to read books...
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If you eat, drink, dine, go to restaurants, like tattoos, loud music, crass behavior, the Food Network, or have a personality, you should read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential. Likewise, if you have ever worked in a kitchen, a restaurant, a take-out joint, served food as a waiter/a waitress/a waitron, I am guessing you have...
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Recommended for people who like: Law and Order, The Daily Show, anything by Howard Zinn, reading footnotes, abovethelaw, Dahlia Lithwick or anything written by the Jurisprudence department of Slate.com. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin is an examination of the Supreme Court during the tenure of Chief...
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Those who know me (or who know my writing), may be surprised by my choice for my first book review attempt.  It’s not that I don’t like chick-lit or that I have to be eponymous.  I never expected, similar to the Jewish-female author Amy Cohen, to be addressing my own life as a single...
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