Flashback Friday comes from Julie Buxbaum’s After You, where the main character Ellie remembers events in her life and the books that correspond. For me, it has always been about books. I can tell you what I was reading when the Twin Towers fell (White Teeth), or when Lucy crashed her mother’s Buick and broke her [...]
Entries from February 2010
February 21, 2010
Review – The Help
I try not to read super popular books the millisecond they peak on the NYT Bestseller list, but my curiosity got the best of me with The Help. I knew I was in for it when I put my name on the reserve list and found I was #659. Three months later, I finally got [...]
February 10, 2010
Review – The Red Tent
Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent is the story of Jacob’s daughter Dinah, based on the book of Genesis, and told from her perspective. At first I was puzzled by the begatting and seeming lack of plot, but the more the story went on the more I was intrigued. The pace was a bit sluggish, but [...]
February 8, 2010
Review – The Shack
Some books, as you turn the last page and contemplate the remarkable journey your brain just took, beg you to flip them over and begin again. The Shack was one such book for me. It has redefined forgiveness, relationships, and communication for me. The most important thing I took away was that you can’t put [...]
February 7, 2010
Review – SuperFreakonomics
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner are at it again. This time they’ve increased the stakes and discuss a few more wild topics than the first book Freakonomics. This follow-up had much more overt political undertones and I think the original delight of the hidden side of everything faded slightly. I enjoyed this book but not [...]
February 6, 2010
Review – The Housekeeper and the Professor
Some books are a love letter to reading. Some a love letter to literature or history. The Housekeeper and the Professor is a love letter to mathematics and a simple yet elegant look at the human condition. It examines what it means to be a family and is such a non-traditional novel – a breath of [...]
