This week I finished The Namesake, the first novel of Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. When I first picked it up I had no idea what it was about, and knew only that Lahiri’s second novel The Lowland had been nominated for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award in 2013. In my decision to diversify my reading list, her works made their way to the top of my TBR pile. Read the rest of the review here.
I’m back?
So, after 10 months away, I’m back! I’ve actually read over 52 books this year already (I think I’m at ~60), but where did I go for all those months? Well, I lived on the road all over the southern US for a few months working a miserable job, therefore I went and got a new job, moved across the country for it and started working long hours at the new one. But this one I love so overall my life is much happier. Oh, […]
Mmm… books about books
At the risk of becoming too meta, I’m going to talk a little bit about one of my go-to books for choosing other books to read.* I tend to think – judging by the Cannonballers I actually know, the general bookish-ness around here, and the sheer amount of things that Must. Be. Read – that a lot of you CBReaders are similar to me, in that you tend to read quite a bit. (And write rather less often than you should/would like too, but that’s […]
A Jane Austen Education
Quick Synopsis: A young man learns that some of life’s most important lessons can be found in the works of Jane Austen Quick Review: Maybe a bit too constructed to be a true memoir, this is at least an interesting take on Austen and what one guy believes her works say about growing up and becoming a more decent person Read the full review here