At last I have read something by Andrea Levy! I have been meaning to do so for many moons now, and when my book club decided to go with Angela Carter instead of Andrea Levy for next month, I trotted round to the library and got The Long Song. I wanted Small Island but it [...]
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Review: The Long Song, Andrea Levy
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged Andrea Levy, happy being back from Thanksgiving!, historical fiction, I do love an unreliable narrator, I think this might have been a better book club book than The Magic Toyshop but we'll see, The Long Song, trigger warning there is lots of very upsetting violence in this book, unreliable narrators on November 30, 2011 | 17 Comments »
Amy was right
Posted in Misc., tagged just the words "evil twin" make me want to weep with joy, sort of weird that I've given this show the same status as The Good Wife in that those are the only two shows about which I've ever written entire posts, the actor who plays Damon is a) very attractive and b) from Louisiana and c) capable of making even pretty boring dialogue amusing, the actor who plays the antihero is from Louisiana wooooo!, the good thing about an evil twin is that it's a signal that the show in question is committed to being cracked-out crazy and I'm almost never not on board for that, The Vampire Diaries, The Vampire Diaries has inspired in my biweekly-or-so letters home a new feature which I call "World News: Evil Twin Edition", there are really not that many scenarios that will not be made funner by the addition of an evil twin on November 11, 2011 | 30 Comments »
This Amy here. She was right all along. And so were all the other people who have been saying that The Vampire Diaries (wait, don’t leave yet! Hear me out!) is awesome. As it turns out? It is pretty awesome. I started watching it right after the CW signed a deal with Netflix — thanks, [...]
Review: Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from a person, tagged Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace, David Lobster Marchpane, I was the only person in book club who read every essay all the way through, I'm definitely calling him David Lobster Marchpane from now on, Jeffrey Eugenides and JFranz seem to be vaguely cross with David Lobster Marchpane but for different reasons than mine, one of the guys in my book club said that I had a similar background to the girl in our book club who grew up in rural Iowa; oh New YORKERS, Salman Rushdie doesn't think The Wire is good because he's a poophead, writers can sometimes pleasantly surprise you on November 9, 2011 | 32 Comments »
I remember when I first read Salman Rushdie. I checked Midnight’s Children out of the library along with a bunch of other books, and I thought that if every other book I had turned out to be lame, I would do my duty by literature and read Salman Rushdie who was bound to be boring [...]
Review: The Crime of Sheila McGough, Janet Malcolm
Posted in 2 Stars, tagged I love legal cases and I thought I would love this even if the legal case wasn't obviously thrilling, I really enjoy reading trial transcripts, I'm reading the Chekhov book next, it's the first sour grape in the fruit salad of my love for Janet Malcolm, Janet Malcolm, The Crime of Sheila McGough on November 6, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Have you heard anything bad about Janet Malcolm yet? If so, now would be a good time to tell me! The first flush of love from The Silent Woman has worn a little bit off, The Crime of Sheila McGough was not that good, and I haven’t had a chance to get another Janet Malcolm [...]
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