January was a dark month. Literally, because Amsterdam is miserable that time of year, and also in terms of my reading picks. It’s April as I’m writing this, but I thought it might be fun to go back and take a look at what I’m reading this year, month by month. I’ll get caught up […]
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Pretty much as far back as I can remember, I’ve been a hardcore bookworm. I can still conjure up the feeling that I always got reading the first three chapters of every Baby-sitters Club book, when they have to introduce the characters all over again, in case you were just joining us now in the middle […]
Read more...Although I’ve been an avid reader for most of my life, it wasn’t until a few years ago that I finally got around to joining a book club. In school I was obnoxiously opinionated and, for the life of me, I couldn’t manage to keep my mouth shut even when I knew I should. What’s […]
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During our last month in the States before moving to Amsterdam, I was spending a lot of time taking inventory of our house and trying to figure out what could come with us, and what had to go. We were living in a three bedroom, two bath house in Kentucky, which seems ludicrous now. We sold two […]
Read more...My favorite book is The World According to Garp, but I don’t usually say that. When people ask me my favorite book, I usually lie. More often, I rattle off several and usually list the authors I like, rather than the books I love. Don’t get me wrong—I almost always remember to include John Irving […]
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I keep two pretty well maintained lists of likes and dislikes on my facebook profile. I recently added the item “everything ever written by Nicholas Sparks—I’d probably even hate his grocery lists” to my dislikes list, which gave me a grand idea. I’m pleased to present Nicholas Sparks’s grocery list: messages bottles a row boat […]
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This book came highly recommended, so I was genuinely surprised that I spent the majority of it waiting for it to improve. About two-thirds of the way in, I realized that this was as good as it was going to get, and that even if the ending was spectacularly awesome and twisty, that didn’t take […]
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I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book. I knew they’d made a movie about it with Ethan Hawke, and I knew the movie had something to do with Japanese-Americans during WWII, but that was about it. The book jumps around in time (which seems to be a common theme of the books I’ve […]
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