Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don’t, and What We Find There by Deborah Chasma This started out being the perfect book for peeking into candid, graphic depictions of other people’s marital lives. It’s like listening to your friends dish on what’s really happening at home, except pithy, and with …
2011 archive
Mar 24
Book Review: Year of the Cock
Year of the Cock: The Remarkable True Account of a Married Man Who Left His Wife and Paid the Price by Alan Wieder I should find it ironic that the memoir of a man who produces reality television should read so much like a reality tv show itself. As with the worst of unscripted television, …
Mar 22
Book Review: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin Several different people independently told me that this book was worth reading, so I actually bought a copy instead of checking it out from the library. On one sense, it’s a story I’ve read before. Girl (usually it’s a boy) gets summoned the capital of a large, magical, …
Mar 20
Book Review: Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling This book is justification for the people who inspect others’ bookshelves and secretly judge them. As we all pretty much knew already, you CAN find out a lot about people by looking at their stuff. The question is, how much? That’s what this book delves …
Mar 18
Book Review: Alive
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read The success of this book relates mostly to the compelling nature of the tragedy that spawned it. Even before reading this book, I’d heard the story of these Urugayans who crashed into the Andes back in 1972. It seemed like the perfect book to …