Tag Archives: literary fiction
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
Read March 2018 Recommended for those with a passing familiarity with academia ★ ★ ★ ★ Dear Fellow Readers: I am pleased to endorse to you the short little epistolary novel, “Dear Committee Members.” This book will most likely be … Continue reading
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Read February 2018 Recommended for fans of slow mysteries, great writing ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 What is it about Brooklyn? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Joe Pitt in Half the Blood of Brooklyn. Last Exit to Brooklyn. Not … Continue reading
Quin’s Shanghai Circus by Edward Whittemore
Read January 2018 Recommended for fans of Vonnegut DNF #7 in my Clean Out the Kindle Project. Naw, I’m just kidding. I can’t count be bothered to count. I got a new kindle and the only thing going on it … Continue reading
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Read December 2017 Recommended for fans of social awkwardness ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine. Mostly, anyway. Except when she’s offering comfort at the scene of an accident: “Mr. Gibbons is calling an ambulance,” I … Continue reading
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, read by Bryan Cranston
Read March 2017 Recommended for fans of war stories ★ ★ ★ 1/2 This is quite the book, and Cranston is quite the reader. Well suited with gravely voice, solemn tones, perfect diction and flow that draws me in. I’m … Continue reading
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
Read January 2017 Recommended ★ ★ ★ ★ First there was ‘chick-lit.’ Then there was ‘hick-lit.’ I hereby dub a new sub-genre: dick-lit. No, it’s not about sex, porny-readers. I’m thinking of such books as The Goldfinch, Less Than … Continue reading
California by Edan Lepucki
Read October 2016 Recommended for fans of horror/thriller ★ ★ If the world’s second-most annoying couple lives in the woods, will we care? Probably not. Despite great potential, California is a mess of a navel-gazing couple looking for … Continue reading
The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
Read February 2016 Recommended for fans of vague, undefined heroines ★ ★ Two things attracted me to The Passenger: Lisa Lutz, the author of the daffy, emotionally complicated and entertaining Spellman Files series (review of the first), and the … Continue reading
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
Read June 2015 Recommended for ?? ★ ★ ★ Tuesday, 16th June– “I come to my journal as a Catholick to a confessor.” The ache in my head was too grievous to ignore & proves that this experience though … Continue reading