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The Invasion, by K.A. Applegate is the first book in the Animorphs series. Scholastic began reissuing this popular set of books back in May of this year. They have even spawned a television series. The new covers have a special glossy image which morphs back and forth between different creature-like images. A little creepy, but [...]
In Michael Cunningham’s By Nightfall, Peter and Rebecca Harris have been married for twenty years, both with successful careers in the arts, a SoHo loft and college aged daughter, Bea. There are a few trouble spots in their careers (Rebecca’s magazine is in talks to be sold and Peter is stymied in his efforts to [...]
Welcome to BOOK CLUB, a joint venture between me and Jen from Devourer of Books. Today we are discussing about By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham which was published by Picador Books. By Nightfall is told from the point of view of Peter Harris, a middle-aged gallery owner struggling with ennui in his career and relationships, and beginning to question his [...]
Review includes some spoilers for The Magicians. Lev Grossmans’ The Magician King opens with Eliot, Janet, Julia and Quentin as rulers of the magical kingdom of Fillory. The Magician’s saw them discovering Fillory, a rumored fairytale land, in the years following their education at premier magic school Brakebills. The path to Fillory was not an easy [...]
In this version of twenty questions, I send a list of questions to a willing victim author and they choose their own interview by choosing which questions, and how many questions, they want to answer! Edie Meidav’s new book Lola, California explores family relationships and the daath penalty. Weighty topics indeed. Edie answered twenty questions, and [...]
A Drop Of The Hard Stuff, by Lawrence Block starts with Matthew Scudder revisiting an early case in his career as a private investigator. Newly sober and just released from his position in the NYPD following the accidental shooting death of an innocent bystander. While attending AA meetings, and in the midst of the stagnation [...]
I’m at the Blogher Book Club today chiming in with my thoughts on Sapphire’s The Kid. It’s the follow-up to her much acclaimed novel, Push, and at the very, very least, a thought-provoking read.
In this version of twenty questions, I send a list of questions to a willing victim author and they choose their own interview by choosing which questions, and how many questions, they want to answer! Last year, I read The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove (read my review), by Susan Gregg Gilmore and I enjoyed getting [...]
In an intriguing premise, One Day, by David Nicholls follows the lives and relationship of Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley over the course of twenty years of the date July 15. The two formally meet just as they are graduating from college and as subsequent years track them, they are many things to each other – not [...]
I haven’t run across many books dealing with death row and the death penalty. Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song comes to mind, and more recently, Naseem Rahka’s The Crying Tree (which Meghan reviewed a few weeks ago). In Edie Meidav’s Lola, California, a daughter is estranged from her father who is currently on death row and awaiting execution in ten days. [...]
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