I’m about 40 pages into the book and can say with confidence, if you are a fan of haiku, you will love this book. Imagine how geeked I was to read Gabriela’s post today.
Category: book review
book review — “Miss O’Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights…,” (2009) by Chris O’Dell with Katherine Ketcham
I wasn’t famous.I wasn’t even almost famous.But I was there . . .— Chris O’Dell I first learned about this book from Max from Powerpop… An Eclectic Collection of Pop Culture Blog when he wrote a review of it and was immediately intrigued and interested in learning tasty tidbits about all of the people named…
Book Review — Tenth of December by George Saunders
I first became aware of George Saunders when I saw him on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as a guest. I admit the guy impressed me with his easy-going demeanor mixed with his sharp intelligence. My awareness of him coupled with his presentation on the show motivated me to seek out one of his…
Book Review: “Not Forever, but for Now,” by Chuck Palahniuk with update
We’re bright young things, and no bright young thing wants to squander his life as a custodian to the dead.(from page 94) I need to put up a dartboard with adjectives and throw darts at it to choose some of my many different impressions of, _Not Forever, But For Now_ by Chuck Palahniuk. First, it…
Book Review: _End of the World House_, by Adrienne Celt
_End of the World House_ is the third novel I’ve read by Adrienne Celt. The first was, _Invitation to a Bonfire_ which is set in the 1920’s about a young Russian refugee in America. The second, _The Daughters_, is about an opera singer trying to extricate herself from a family curse, I wasn’t sure what…
Book Review — The Journey, by Suzanne Miller
It came to her that the efforts to stop climate change through technological innovations had , ultimately , perpetuated the problem and degraded the environment still further . The Journey is set in the not-too-distant future, where technology and the wreckage it has left behind is part of the landscape of the story of two…
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