Tag: books
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Iodine by Haven Kimmel – A Book Review
This book, appropriately enough, really has me split down the middle. One hand, I hated it. It encompassed all of the hipster “too-cool-for-everyone” characteristics in the protagonist, Trace, that drive me bonkers. All those songs and musicians that everyone who “dares” to be different listens to? Yep, there in here. The “I so don’t care…
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Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy – A Book Review
In this third installment of The Border Trilogy, McCarthy brings together John Grady Cole from Book I and Billy Parham from Book II as they work together on a ranch. Though neither delves too deeply into the tragedies in Mexico they both suffered, their unspoken experiences seem to bind them in ways they can’t understand.…
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The Wettest County In the World by Matt Bondurant – A Book Review
This book is based upon the true story of Matt Bondurant’s grandfather and his grandfather’s brothers, a band of bootleggers who were a fearsome and almost preternaturally tough group of men during the Prohibition Era. In The Wettest County In the World, Bondurant presents an intriguing story at its core, but I’m afraid I found…
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The Things They Carried – A Book Review
In The Things They Carried, Vietnam veteran Tim O’Brien called upon his own wartime experiences, labeled them as fiction, and wrote one of the most emotionally potent books I’ve ever read. It’s irrelevant to me how much of O’Brien’s book “really happened” because O’Brien’s words and stories in The Things They Carried deeply touched me. …
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Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll – A Book Review
Land of Laughs was actually recommended to me based on my love of Paul Auster by someone I’ve never met. Though I was totally unfamiliar with Jonathan Carroll, I’m always on the hunt for new (to me) authors, so I figured I’d give him a shot! Land of Laughs is about a man named Thomas…
