If I were offered a chance to meet anyone in all of history, I would choose Oscar Wilde. If I were offered a chance to have a lifelong friendship with anyone in history, I might instead choose Oscar Wilde’s friend Ada Leverson. Ada Leverson had a beautiful name, gave good parties, liked her privacy, made [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Review: An Accident in August, Laurence Cossé
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged "There would have been time for such a word" -- how good a line is that? SHAKESPEARE, Amelie is a damn good movie and I would watch it every week because it's wondrous, An Accident in August, Happy Indian Independence Day and Feast of the Ascension!, I wrote this review in July and it's funny to me to say Happy Indian Independence Day when as of this writing it's only mid-July, Laurence Cossé, my English teacher cried when Princess Diana died and we all made fun of her because kids are ruthless, this review was brought to you by my mother very sweetly sending me money to get coffee on a weekend and I wrote this review while drinking coffee and eating a pastry; thanks Mumsy!, translation on August 15, 2011 | 24 Comments »
My half-assed, unenthusiastic effort to make myself love books in translation continues apace. Yes, I am aware that it is a very very half-assed effort indeed. No, I would probably not have done anything about it had not Europa contacted me to offer me a copy of An Accident in August for review. (Hey FTC! [...]
Review: The Road Home, Rose Tremain
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from a person, tagged I sometimes enjoy books like this while simultaneously feeling like I am a bad reader of books like this, it's going to be a sad day when my TBR shelf stops being effective, MY TBR SHELF MAKES MY LIFE SO ORGANIZED, Rose Tremain, The Road Home on August 5, 2011 | 24 Comments »
How long it took me to figure out that the reason I didn’t know what country the protagonist was from was that the country the protagonist was from was never named and may quite well have been intended to be fictional: Two-thirds. Two-thirds of the book. You know why that is? Because I am dumb. [...]
Review: The Hottest Dishes in the Tartar Cuisine, Alina Bronsky
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged Alina Bronsky, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE FUN OF A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL'S PHYSICAL APPEARANCE?, I do love an unreliable narrator, The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, translation, unreliable narrators, who knew that responsible blogging was achievable by such a small change as a TBR shelf? on August 3, 2011 | 24 Comments »
It turns out that a TBR shelf was the best idea I ever had. I’ve made the top section of my little bookshelf into a priority-reads shelf. Now when I am wondering what to read, and I think longingly of library books, my TBR shelf is like a stern little taskmaster going “Oh no you [...]
Review: Rough Crossings, Simon Schama; or, how to feel decidedly unpatriotic on 4th of July Weekend
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from a person, tagged British history is much interestinger, I can nearly always love Frederick Douglass and Julian of Norwich so there's still that, I do not know whence comes my dislike of American history but it is pretty thorough, I don't know why it is that I find nearly the whole of American history so unbearably dull, if you know of any resoundingly awesome books about Liberian history please alert me, Laurie Halse Anderson's quite good YA book Chains deals very interestingly with this American Revolution slavery British freedom business, my parents are both pretty awesome people but they are not In History, nonfiction, Rough Crossings, Simon Schama on August 1, 2011 | 16 Comments »
What now? 4th of July weekend was ages ago and I am the laziest book blogger ever for only getting around to posting about Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution at the start of August? Fair point. In my defense, I read this book all in one weekend, and if you [...]
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