This book passed the rarest of tests: I often bring a book somewhere in case I have a wait or a gap of time and have a chance to read. I’ve done it since childhood, but the habit doesn’t really make sense anymore. I have an almost 3 year old who needs constantly, never-ending attention, intervention, corralling, chasing, and supervision. On the rare occasions that I do actually have a second in public, it’s 100,000,000x easier to just browse Facebook on my phone or something. […]
Oh, Baby….
Paula Bomer spoke at my MFA last August and I’ve wanted to read some of her work for a while after listening to her presentation. Since her work is ridiculously funny while also being incredibly deep, I thought this would be a nice follow-up to Rachel Cusk’s memoir on motherhood, and it did not disappoint! Bomer is as funny and deep in her writing as she was in person. This short story collection focuses on the many facets of dysfunction that can (and often do) […]
An unhappy Danish murder mystery with a science twist
Perhaps because of all the praise heaped on this book, I found The Dinosaur Feather to be one of the more disappointing murder mysteries I’ve read in a while. In a nutshell, the plot is centered on a furious and long-running cross-Atlantic brawl between two respected paleontologists over whether birds evolved from dinosaurs or are their own separate species (something which has been definitively resolved since, which in my view takes the wind a little bit out of the author’s sails). The strange and very […]