Haruki Murakami’s Men without Women is a series of seven short stories, each written in rather different ways, but all focused on similar stories. All talk about men and their relationship with women. The title is a bit of a misnomer in that way in that there is a female character that is featured in each of the stories. But each male character, in some way or another, is or has been without some ‘woman’ in his life. One thing that stood out to me in […]
CBR Bingo: Home, Something, Home
The stars at night – are big and bright Deep in the heart of Texas. The prairie sky – is wide and high Deep in the heart of Texas. I have lived in North Texas my whole life, excluding my Freshman year of college where I went all the way to Oklahoma, but I traveled a little farther south to Austin with Pamela Ribbon’s Why Girls are Weird because I’ve already read all the books about JFK’s assassination and was at a loss for what to read for […]
CBR Bingo: Listicles
Leah on the Off Beat is on numerous listicles for 2018 but for CBR Bingo purposes it is located on BookBub’s 20 of the Biggest Teen Books for Adults coming in Spring 2018. Albertalli revisits the Creekwood social circle of Simon Spier with the narration falling into the less capable hands of his friend Leah Burke. Leah is an overweight, Harry Potter obsessed drummer who has always known she was bisexual but failed to come out to her best friend Simon even after he had a dramatic outing […]
“He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”
This book sat on my shelf for a decade because I was too scared to read it. It’s great, everyone said. It’s great, but it’s heavy. It is both of those things. It’s also, unexpectedly, the best book on fatherhood I’ve ever read. More on that later. Plotwise, The Road is not paving (haha) any new terrain: An apocalyptic event occurred within the last decade, and the survivors are trying to eke out an existence. The main threat isn’t the scarred earth – it’s the other […]