The Writer’s Coin

This book took me a LONG time to get through. It’s been on my sidebar under “Currently Reading” for a really long time. More on that later. But anyway, I finally made my way through it and all of the stories inside. The book is a collection of short stories that are supposedly the “best [...]

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Well the first “pick my book” event is finally over now that I’ve finished the book and am reviewing it. Overall, there are some things I would’ve done differently: make the voting easier (with a poll instead of in the comments) and maybe picking books that were better known. But oh well. It was fun [...]

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So I recently finished Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies (which was chosen by my readers) and I loved it. So I’m two for two with her after also loving The Namesake. So I was doing some reading about her and found a nice piece on Time about her.
They compare and contrast her with two other [...]

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We all have certain moments in our lives that kind of take us and point us in a new direction. For me, reading David Foster Wallace’s A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never do Again was one of those moments.
You may have noticed that in my Amazon Store I have every one of his books listed [...]

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So I’ve had a bit of a tough run lately when it comes to books, so I’m happy to report that my current read, Interpreter of Maladies, is going great. So far I’ve read about four of the short stories and two of them have been fantastic. The title story was very good, and “A [...]

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Well, I don’t know what I expected when I had my “readers” pick my next book, but in my dreams I hoped hundreds of people would be compelled by this incredibly original idea (which it really isn’t) and the chance to help out a reader who has been struggling to find a great book to [...]

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So I’ve had a lot of trouble recently finding great books to read. Sure, I really liked Call Me by Your Name and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but it seems like I’ve been quitting a lot of books and it’s kind of bothering me. I used to read on until the end [...]

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I’ve been having trouble recently finding a good book to read so I figured I would give this non-fiction book a try. It had been sitting on my bookshelf for a while and I actually bought it from Borders a long time ago so I knew I would have to read it eventually (you pay, [...]

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I’ve always believed that word of mouth was the best way to learn about new books that I might like to read. That’s why I use Amazon so much—I love seeing what lists people have that include books I’ve enjoyed. It’s fun and it exposes me to new books I never would’ve gotten into (like [...]

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Recently I’ve been quitting a lot of books and it’s made me think about the value of reading a “bad” book vs. just putting it away and picking up one you potentially might like.
I used to read through any book no matter what, but I think since I realized that books are infinite and you [...]

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