It’s a damn shame, but the Indian restaurants in Amsterdam are all pretty crap. Honestly, you can get better Indian food in Louisville. The Dutch have Indonesian food as their go-to takeaway and that, plus Holland’s fairly bland palate and intolerance of spicy foods, means that good Indian food is tough to find. I’ve tried dozens of […]
Read more...
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays – Zadie Smith It’s been a few years now since I read On Beauty and White Teeth, but I remember really loving both and I’d consider myself a fan of Smith’s. I would imagine if you are as educated in the world of literary criticism as Smith you might get more enjoyment out of this […]
Read more...
The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon This was a quick, fun-ish read that reminded me a lot of a book I read last year, Lexicon, by Max Barry. Lexicon is a bit more tense with serious implications for complex characters. The Word Exchange, however, had slightly less dire stakes and was more quick-paced romp than dark thriller. The […]
Read more...
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro The only other book by Ishiguro that I’ve read is Never Let Me Go, which I loved. Other than a similarity in that feeling of being plunked abruptly into a world (a feeling I love), these books have almost nothing in common. I’d heard a little buzz about The Buried Giant when […]
Read more...
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 […]
Read more...
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...