Next Up: Richard Powers
The Pulitzer run has sputtered lately. Part of it may be my extreme busyness (although that’s a bit of an exaggeration), or it may just be that the quality of… Read more »
Category: Books
Next Up: N. Scott Momaday
Chalk this one up to randomness — I finally finished The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, and the library is closed for one more day, so I take a… Read more »
Getting Easier as I Go
If you’ve read some of my stuff before, you might have seen a few pieces on Christianity and the Bible. Out of over a thousand posts, this will be the… Read more »
Next Up: Oscar Hijuelos
So I’m back to the “Next Up” format for now. Robert Warren Penn’s All the King’s Men was an excellent book — as can be expected of most (but not… Read more »
Next Up: Robert Penn Warren
I’ve been busy enough not to have gotten to this, but if you were paying attention, I finished Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad a few days back… Read more »
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Two words come to mind when I think of this book: Incredibly creative. Egan weaves the lives of her characters so effortlessly that, although it appears to be all over… Read more »
Next Up: Jennifer Egan
I’d like to make my review of the last book short: I’ve given up on it. But I can’t help myself. I don’t even know what The Executioner’s Song is… Read more »
Oops…?
Maybe it’s a little early, but I’ve got to say it: I’m kind of regretting picking up The Executioner’s Song. I’ve got to wonder a bit, actually. The Kindle version… Read more »
Next Up: …and some thoughts.
With the finishing of All the Light We Cannot See, I’ve come to decision time again. The Pulitzers in which I’ve taken an interest are not available at the local… Read more »
All the Light We Cannot See
As I have noted before, the thing about reading nothing but Pulitzer-prize winning novels is that you will always be reading something of quality. Not that I’ve loved all of… Read more »