Kate Westrich
Kate Westrich used to get in trouble for sitting behind her parents’ house reading for eight hour stretches. Her free time doesn’t allow for quite the same investment into reading, but at least she’s not longer being scolded for it. Kate is a web editor who loves to read fiction that takes place in any country but her own, because it offers the inspiration to take trips around the world. She also loves getting lost in “children’s” books like His Dark Materials and The Narnia Chronicles.
Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Reviewed on October 6, 2011
We all have food memories. We recall helping a parent or grandparent in the kitchen, meeting a good friend for dinner, giving thanks over a big meal. We typically look back on these events as moments created in time among people and not as a series of actions leading to food being presented on the [...]
The Paris Wife: A Novel by Paula McLain
Reviewed on September 26, 2011
It’s a pretty well-known fact Ernest Hemingway was intimately familiar with alcohol. Travel just about anywhere in the world and you’ll find a bar with a sign reading “Hemingway Sat Here.” Some other commonly known facts about the American author include his fame for writing some memorable novels, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, reputation [...]
22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
Reviewed on July 20, 2011
Every life contains transformative moments where life is distinctly different afterwards from that before. Marriage, children, home ownership. Illness, death, rape, war. Fallout occurs when people in our lives before these events have to adapt to the version of us that emerges. Sometimes it simply isn’t possible. 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson centers on [...]
One Day, by David Nicholls
Reviewed on May 15, 2011
Look at today’s date and take a snapshot of your life at it stands today. Not go back and do the same for every year of your life on this exact day. What do you get? Is it a complete telling of your life? Does the story that comes together tell enough of the important [...]
Freud’s Blind Spot, edited by by Elisa Albert
Reviewed on February 28, 2011
The relationship between siblings is especially maddening. No one but my sister can recite my diary entry describing my first kiss. Or has the stolen entry hidden away in her files some 15 years after the fact. Only my brother can quote my side of dramatic fights with my mother, all in a mocking tone. [...]
The Lady’s Slipper, by Deborah Swift
Reviewed on February 19, 2011
The butterfly effect refers to how one small action can affect the future of everything, how one flutter of a butterfly wing can lead to a natural disaster halfway around the world. Or, in Deborah Swift’s The Lady’s Slipper, how picking one flower can disrupt an entire community. Set in the eighteenth century England amidst [...]
SuperFreakonomics, by Steve D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Reviewed on February 15, 2011
The notion of “friends with benefits” is causing a severe decline in the prostitution industry. Convincing doctors to wash their hands because that would eradicate the number one cause of death in childbirth, the germs on doctors’ own hands, was a nearly impossible task because of ego. Television has had an impressive effect on the [...]
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Reviewed on February 8, 2011
Some stories stick with you, marinating, festering, always present. They might piss you off, make you happy, confuse you, but you keep thinking about them. Henrietta Lacks’ story is like that. As a young mother suffering from cancer in a segregated US, Lacks unknowingly changed the course of medical history. But her identity and contribution [...]
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Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning mystery and suspense fiction for half a century. His most recent novels are A Drop of the Hard Stuff, featuring Matthew Scudder, and Getting Off, starring a very naughty young woman. Several of his books have been filmed, although not terribly well. He’s well known for his books for writers, including the classic Telling Lies for Fun and Profit, and The Liar’s Bible.
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