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Review: The Sisters Brothers
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt My rating: 5 of 5 stars I haven’t had a lot of success reading books with a blurb along the lines of “Could be the finest comic novel since Flann O’Brien’s…” or...
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Review: The Little Red Publishing Hen
The Little Red Publishing Hen by Matthew Hanlon My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an amazing tour-de-force of the self-publishing world, sure to brighten any author’s day! And it’ll explain to little...
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Review: Slade House
Slade House by David Mitchell My rating: 4 of 5 stars I received an advance copy of this book through NetGalley. I can’t believe I received an advance copy of this book through NetGalley. I felt a...
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Review: On Intelligence
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins My rating: 1 of 5 stars This book was like an uncle, the eccentric uncle who your parents don’t like to hang out with, and with whom *you* don’t like to hang out with,...
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Review: If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young by Kurt Vonnegut My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a great little collection of Vonnegut’s speeches, and the audiobook is well read — the reader hasn’t...
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Review: Dearly Devoted Dexter
Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay My rating: 4 of 5 stars I felt like I was back in the television series.The over-the-top hokeyness of Dexter’s internal monologue might go so wrong, the cuteness...
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Review: The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov My rating: 5 of 5 stars In the midst of all the devilish mischief in the first part I started to flag, which makes me think I’m not going to be a great fit...
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Review: The Great Forgetting
The Great Forgetting by James Renner My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is everything I thought Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, by David Shafer, was going to be. It’s well-written, well-paced, entertaining, and...
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Review: Dexter in the Dark
Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay My rating: 3 of 5 stars I didn’t mind the descent into the demoniacal as much as other people did, but it’s certainly different than the other Dexter books.More than...
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Review: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa My rating: 5 of 5 stars Wow.This was an excellent book. I loved both paths of the story, one of which was multi-pronged, since we followed the...
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Review: The Bad Beginning
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read this book because my then nine year old son, stricken, asked me to read the book so that I might see the horrors (the murder,...
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Review: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie My rating: 2 of 5 stars It was fine.I listened to the audiobook edition, and it was fine.The way in which the book was narrated — from...
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Review: Near Enemy
Near Enemy by Adam Sternbergh My rating: 4 of 5 stars Spademan is back for another adventure with his bleak outlook and black humor.I love the character of Spademan, really enjoy his voice, and this...
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Review: Security
Security by Gina Wohlsdorf My rating: 1 of 5 stars I received an advance reader copy from NetGalley for this title and was really excited about it, since the blurb compared it to “A Visit from the...
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Review: I Hear the Sirens in the Street
I Hear the Sirens in the Street by Adrian McKinty My rating: 4 of 5 stars I really enjoy Sean Duffy, the main character of Adrian McKinty’s latest series of books (a Douglas Adams-style trilogy, the...
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Review: number9dream
number9dream by David Mitchell My rating: 4 of 5 stars Man oh man. This book started a little slow — it’s about the dream world, to an extent, and begins there, which lends it an early hallucinatory...
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Review: Last Night in Montreal
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel My rating: 2 of 5 stars I grabbed this book after reading Emily St. John Mandel’s amazing “Station Eleven,” wanting to read anything and everything she...
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Review: A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Richard Matthews read the audiobook version I listened to and man, oh man. In the words of one of my kids, “he sounds so...
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Review: Save Yourself: A Novel
Save Yourself: A Novel by Kelly Braffet My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was a little like reading a slowly smoldering firecracker. The characters are a perfectly wrecked set of small town folks, each set...
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Review: In the Woods
In the Woods by Tana French My rating: 0 of 5 stars I found this one in a Little Free Library around the neighborhood, out walking the dog with the kids, the kids who I will never let into the woods...
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