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I'm a twenty-something booklover who reads and reviews literary fiction, memoirs, and an eclectic smattering of nonfiction. Personally and professionally, I'm on a mission to keep the written word alive in our increasingly digital culture.

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Book Review: Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon

Oct 9, 2009
Recently published October 6, 2009 by HarperCollins A women’s studies professor I had in graduate school once suggested that the real problems of sexism were not caused so much by the ways we...

Book Review: This Will Kill You by H.P. Newquist and Rich Maloof

Jul 22, 2009
Published May 2009 by St. Martin’s Griffin. H.P. Newquist and Rich Maloof don’t mess around.   We’re not here to talk about the metaphysics of dying or to ponder the mysteries of the Great Beyond. We’re here to talk about...

Book Review: Purge by Nicole Johns

Jun 29, 2009
Published April 2009 by Seal Press I finished this book almost two weeks ago, and it has taken me that long to wrap my head around writing this review. Purge:Rehab Diaries is Nicole John’s multi-format memoir of living with and seeking treatme...

Book Review: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Jan 25, 2009
Set for publication January 27th, 2009 from Ballantine Books When we first meet Henry Lee, it is 1986, and he is walking past the Panama Hotel in Seattle, which has been boarded up since World War II. Henry notices a crowd gathering on the steps of t...

Book Review: What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg

Dec 8, 2009
Published October 2009 by Dzanc Books Okay people, if I had picked up Laura van den Berg’s debut collection of short fiction What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us on my own (instead of accepting a review copy from the author, who...

My secret Santa has a sense of humor…

Dec 7, 2009
So, I came home from a very long day today and saw a box stamped “media mail” sitting in my mailbox. Nothing unusual there. But then I noticed that it wasn’t from an author or publisher, and I didn’t recognize the name on the return address. And I...

The Weekend Review: DECODING THE LOST SYMBOL by Simon Cox

Dec 6, 2009
Published November 2009 by Touchstone (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) The Quick and Dirty One of the best things about working in a bookstore on Dan Brown Day is the knowing looks from crazy customers who lean across the customer service counter,...

What are the best book club selections of 2009?

Dec 3, 2009
‘Tis the season for the flurry of “best of” book lists, and while I’m still working on my personal lists, I’m loving the chance to peek at what everyone else—book bloggers and major media outlets alike—is choosing. A few weeks ago, Peter at Flashlight...

November Reading Wrap-Up

Dec 2, 2009
November was an interesting month for me. For the first time since I started blogging, I developed a backlog of books that I’ve finished reading but haven’t yet reviewed. I’ve always been pretty good about writing my review shortly after finishing a...

Book Review: Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon





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