So my December has been suuuper crazy. Work is insane, and I’ve been trying to fit in reading with all the extra working I’ve been doing. I’ve been falling asleep at night without reading, which is not normal for me. Anyway, even when I have finished books, I haven’t had the time or energy to review them! I write all day at work (nothing fun or exciting), so sometimes it’s hard to write these reviews after long days of work. That’s why I’m shoving these […]
I’ve spent an enjoyable 900 years with this book.
I don’t know if other people do this, but I usually have three books going that serve three different purposes. I have my reading in bed book, and it has to be interesting enough to keep me reading when the alternative is sleeping (Liane Moriarty is ideal for this). I have a book on the end table that’s light enough to read while my daughter plays (ex: home decor books). And I have spots for books that take a little discipline to get through, spots […]
You can’t handle the trials (heh) and tribulations of the 1%.
The Firm (1991) Not reviewed previously on CBR. In many ways, this is the perfect book to adapt into a Tom Cruise movie. The main character is young, cocky, great looking, and he has to run. The only difference, really, between Mitch and Tom Cruise is that the character is taller. So, he looks more like Patrick Bateman. The image that kept recurring to me, in fact, was Christian Bale in American Psycho. Sexy. The problem here, for me, is that he isn’t an every […]
The Dangers of Biographical Non-fiction
This was an excellent book that is part journalistic inquiry, part court-room drama, and part social discourse. Janet Malcolm is an experienced journalist who receives a mysterious letter from a lawyer suggesting that a libel court case may ruin the entire professional sphere of journalism. Malcolm takes the bait and begins investigating the already exhaustively investigated murder trial of a Dr. Jeff MacDonald and his follow up libel case with his court-biographer, Joseph McGrinnis. Throughout her book, Malcolm chronicles how Dr. MacDonald came to be […]