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Category Archives: reading
Review: 11/22/63 by Stephen King
11/22/63 by Stephen King My rating: 4 of 5 stars Though I’m not a regular Stephen King reader, I picked this up on a whim after seeing it on the New York Times notable list for 2011. I’m so, so … Continue reading
Please, no one buy me this book: National Trust Manual of Housekeeping
I like a clean house. Honest! I do. The thing is, though, I like it to happen by magic, preferably while I’m sleeping (and silently. Did I add, silently?). Since I cannot afford silent night-time maid service (or even loud, … Continue reading
The Hunger Games: A Story about Stories
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins My rating: 4 of 5 stars I did not resist reading The Hunger Games out of any feeling that it would be average — I’ve watched, up close and later via Facebook, as many … Continue reading
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Rereading, and Rereading
There’s an article in the New York Times Review of Books about how authors often re-read and re-read their favorite books. It has this quote about and from Stephen King: Stephen King, who wears a T-shirt with the slogan Quot … Continue reading
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Reading and Enjoying Stephen King’s 11/22/63, But:
Here’s a paragraph from what the eBook calls 2% in: It wasn’t just that his normally ruddy cheeks had gone slack and sallow. It wasn’t the rheum that coated his blue eyes, which now looked washed-out and nearsightedly peering. It … Continue reading
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Review: Ian McEwan’s “Solar” is anything but sunny
Solar by Ian McEwan My rating: 3 of 5 stars At times very witty, this book is exactly what I knew it would be from the start: depressing as all hell by the end. I know, you’re thinking, “What? An … Continue reading
New York Times Announces its Top Ten of 2011
And the winners are: FICTION: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach. 11/22/63 by Stephen King Swamplandia! by Karen Russell Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obrecht NON-FICTION Arguably by Christopher Hitchens The Boy in … Continue reading
A Kind of Progress on the Weddings & Celebrations Page
I admit to sometimes scanning through the Weddings & Celebrations page of the New York Times; they often have interesting little stories. Today’s list seems like one that’s perfectly in tune with the evolving definition of marriage: Huzzah!
Jeffrey Eugenides, Fashion Icon
Can we please talk for a moment about this shirt-vest combo on the author of Middlesex? Via the L.A. Times book blog: I so need to buy his new book. Or receive it for Christmas. Wrapped in that shirt. With … Continue reading
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