A house with a dark secret. A creeping sense of foreboding. A story told through documents, footnotes, and scraps of paper. House of Leaves is like nothing I’ve read before. How this story is told is as much a part of the experience as the story itself. In a committed storytelling device, we meet ourContinue reading “family book club: house of leaves”
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family book club: icy sparks
Normally I’m begging for authors not to explicitly spell things out for their readers. We’re smart, and we can tell who is sad without having to read “John is sad.” But in Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio (Kindle version here), I needed some things to be spelled out. It was an easy read, but one thatContinue reading “family book club: icy sparks”
family book club: middlesex
We met a few weekends ago to discuss our #familybookclub pick, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Kindle version here). We used Google hangouts, and it worked pretty well! It was so fun to see everyone and to get together from our homes all over the country. And it didn’t hurt that my adorable nephews jumped on toContinue reading “family book club: middlesex”
in cold blood
Our book club book this month was In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Have you read it? It’s a really amazing, in-depth account of a horrible murder of a family in Western Kansas in 1959. I’m an editor, and I actually interned at the Kansas City Star, which comes up often in this book. IContinue reading “in cold blood”
my to-read list
Well, I finished Middlesex over the weekend, on the plane (Kindle version here). I don’t want to talk too much about it yet because I’m saving all my good discussion for Family Book Club. Don’t forget you have until the end of the month to read it to participate! But now what do I read? I started UnderContinue reading “my to-read list”
real life book club
You know about #familybookclub already, but let me tell you about this real life book club I went to last weekend. It was at Word, a local bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and it was really fun! We talked about Safe as Houses by Marie Helene-Bertino. It is a short story collection, and I very muchContinue reading “real life book club”
family book club
I’m sure I’ve said this before, but I come from a family of readers (for this, I am #thankful). I’ve never known a moment where reading wasn’t celebrated or encouraged, and believe me when I say I am grateful and know this isn’t the norm for everyone. Now that we are all adults (I’m the youngest),Continue reading “family book club”