Category: books
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: ambushed :
By a surprise attack from Barnes & Noble. One I never saw coming. Here’s how it went down: After donating blood yesterday, I decided to reward myself with a new book and a caramel macchiato. It wasn’t exactly a snap decision. I debated against it vigorously, pointing out a number of things I need more […]
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: book titles are misleading :
Don’t believe everything you read is such a common caveat it’s achieved cliché status. People do, though. They fall for preposterous claims regularly. How else can you explain paid programming and psychic hotlines and conspiracy theories? We are suckers. And publishers, for one, have our number. They grab our attention and, yoink, pick our pockets clean. […]
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: does this happen to you? :
Do inert, lifeless things accost you in public? Those sons of guns buttonhole me all the goddamn time and I’m getting tired of it. Yesterday a book jumped out at me in the library, stopping me dead in my tracks. A woman barreling along with a stroller ran right into me. Hard. These constant shenanigans have […]
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: a review of the review :
Sundays are opportunities for adventure. The perfect excuse to do whatever whenever: stay in pajamas, go for brunch, hide out at the movies, haunt bookstores, all of the above, none of the above. Your choice. Last Sunday, I spent part of the morning wandering aimlessly on the Internet, with no purpose or destination in mind. […]
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: hot off the presses :
Hot and freaking ginormous. City on Fire, the much-ballyhooed novel by Garth Risk Hallberg, is 944-pages long. A thumping doorstop. It contains 94 chapters, plus a prologue and a postscript. And it’s set to hit shelves (fingers crossed they’re buttressed) on October 13th. Comparisons are being made to Bonfire of the Vanities and Dickens and […]
the whirly girl 