David Mamet is best know as the playwright behind such award-winning plays as Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-plow, and American Buffalo. Chicago is his fourth novel but his first in eighteen years. The winding plot follows newspaper reporter Mike Hodge as he attempts to solve a string of … [Read more]
I’m a Teacher In a Movie (or “I’m a college professor in a contemporary romance”)
This was one of the books I received for Jolabokaflod this year from my sister, and it was just the type of novel that I needed to escape to last weekend—an interesting group of friends, an academic setting, and a rather silly plot involving an online dating site. Millie Morris is a professor of … [Read more]
Just take out a loan to buy food, Sophia. Grocery stores will work with you, if you can’t afford to eat…
“I told Helen my story and she went home and cried.” I have an ongoing reading project called "A Century of Women," where I am reading a book written by a woman author for every year in the 20th century, from 1900 through 1999. For that reason, you'll be seeing a lot of reviews of books written - … [Read more]
S.O.S.
Dead Wake is a non-fiction account of what happened to the Lusitania, the ocean liner sunk by a German u-boat that led to the the United States joining WWI. That was the extent of my knowledge about the topic prior to this book. I remember learning about the sinking of the Lusitania in high school … [Read more]