Best Reads of 2020, So Far

We’re a quarter of the way into the year — does anyone else feel like March has gone on forever?  I’ve been having trouble coming up with meaningful things to write about, so I thought I’d share some of my favorite books so far. It seems like some of you have a lot more reading…

Interview with Mark Lamprell and a Book Giveaway

Author Mark Lamprell and I share one unusual experience: we’ve both been run over by a car. Lamprell has written a novel about that experience, called The Full Ridiculous (my review here). It’s been compared to The Rosie Project and The Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, and I also was reminded of the…

Best Fiction of 2010

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday.  Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times of the year (except for the cold) and yesterday was a particularly nice day – I got to stay close to home, had dinner with my dad, talked to most of my family and my husband’s family, relaxed and watched…

Review: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

I loved this book.  Each chapter is sort of its own story, told from a different character’s point of view, with characters intersecting throughout the book in various ways.  One review I read described it as a book of short stories, and for that reason I almost didn’t buy it.  But these aren’t short stories…