I can't tell if I have ever read this before, but I feel like I feel like I've read it, if that makes sense, because so many people I've known through the years have been obsessed with this book. Also, of course, I've run in more than one circle that's been peppered with Little Prince … [Read more]
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning
Yet another book that feels like I have read it before, maybe multiple times, because of how familiar the material, the plot, the theme, and the language in this books are. I've read a handful of Wells's books in the past-- namely The War of the Worlds. And so I really felt like I had read this … [Read more]
And, almost as one, they murmured: “Yes.”
This book is almost like OG American Gods. Not really, but it does share the kind of mythopoeic qualities of gods and goddesses of other cultures wrapped a kind of metanarrative/ meta-worldview. This is a novel written for children, and I was curious about finding out when it was published (I was … [Read more]
To make matters worse, the women also dominated all the activity on the upper deck.
I read three Javier Marias books like year, a trilogy that was published in 2004-2010 or so. I think that Javier Marias is an incredibly readable and interesting and brilliant writer, and his weaving together of a kind of crime novel, spy novel, and cultural critique over the course of 1300 or pages … [Read more]