Well, now that 2010 is a bit more than half finished, I thought it might be a good idea to trot out my Best and Worst list as it stands thus far. As of today, I’ve read 65 books this year. (I haven’t published that many reviews, though. I keep a bunch of them queued [...]
I’m looking for a page-turner to read this summer. I’m thinking something along the lines of The Da Vinci Code, where I simply couldn’t bear to put the book down and just had to keep reading to find out what happened next. It’s been a long time since I’ve read something that left me needing [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): South of Broad tells the story of a group of high school friends who reunite 20 years later in order to rescue one of the bunch who is missing in San Francisco. Things begin in the summer of 1969 when Leopold Bloom King (named after a character in Joyce’s Ulysses) meets [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): A movie crew has come to Lake Eden to make an indie film called Crisis in Cherrywood. This has Lake Eden residents, including Hannah Swensen, sister Andrea, mother Dolores, and the rest of Hannah’s inner circle excited — particularly since the film crew will need extras and walk-ons to fill various [...]