I first read Rabbit, Run by John Updike in college and remember loving it. A year or so ago one of my best reading buddies […] Read More
Tag: Theories on Books and Reading
Call us book snobs. It is a label we embrace. My book club’s book ratings from 2022-2023.
The Pole by J. M. Coetzee is at once moody and mysterious – full of tension. This novella centers around Beatriz and Wittold. She’s a […] Read More
Last week when I was wrapping up my review of The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, I saw that he was going to be […] Read More
It has been 14 years since Abraham Verghese published Cutting for Stone, a book that easily ranks in my top five favorites of all time. […] Read More
This may be less a book review of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina as it is a reading review – as in, if you’re going to read it, this is how I’d recommend you go about it.
I had the privilege of being a guest on Lisa Hedger’s podcast Everyone Loved it but Me about Kristin Hannah’s The Four Winds. Whether or not you liked The Four Winds, the conversation is worth a listen. We talk about the book’s shortcomings, but we also address where it has merit.
The most consistent reading theme for 2020 that I heard was an inability to “get into” a book, which was incredibly frustrating – especially during those weeks and months of “sheltering in place.” For many readers, they readily apply this feeling to that now cliche term of “unprecedented.”
This review of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens is for the small percentage of readers who didn’t like it – to let you […] Read More
Last May I posted a roundup of various summer reading guides that had been released and it was one of my most popular posts of […] Read More