I recently finished reading The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (329 pages) and Bossypants by Tina Fey (275 pages). Basically: I read The Age of Innocence a few years ago, loved it, decided to try out some more Edith Wharton and ultimately needed to take a break halfway through with Tina Fey. There were a few things I didn’t love about House of…[Read more]

@internrachel and @julia1 another brief break from ‘Sense and Sensibility’ (I will finish it this week!). Bought ‘Fun Home’ by Alison Bechdel, 232 pgs (but counts as 116 pgs, graphic novel y’all) today at the Strand because it was half price. So if you live in/near NYC and don’t already own it, its only $7 at the Strand! I’ve read it before, I…[Read more]

Hi @internrachel, @julia1 – and everyone else. So, last week, I finished Nabokov’s LOLITA (336 pages). I read it once before, about 5 years ago now, but it does warrant a re-read. Is it funny that I see it as a summer book? Probably because I first read it on a hot summer holiday in Spain, but I still see it as a summer read. I guess I don’t…[Read more]

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Eep, I’m so far behind on this. Summer has been chaotic and sweaty, but I have managed to read a few more books. The least recent was The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show, by Ariel Gore (217 pages). This was a revisit; I originally read the book a few years ago, around the time it came out. Though it led me to one of my…[Read more]

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Yeah, it’s me again. To be honest, I’m actually getting a little bored of reading, but I can barely even walk right now, so….
Anyway, today I read American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee by Karen Abbott (349 pages).

Born to a stage mother so horrid even Dina Lohan would say “Wow, maybe you…[Read more]

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Today I read The Clocks by Agatha Christie (257 pages).

A woman who works for a typing agency receives a request asking her to come to a certain house for a transcription job. When she arrives, she finds a murdered man on the floor surrounded by a bunch of clocks. The blind woman who owns the house denies ever calling for…[Read more]

I recently finished Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand ( 496 pages). It was a very informative and inspiring read. Hillenbrand made it easy to follow a story full of facts, dates, and names; it read much like a memoir.
I found this story incredibly interesting even though I’m not a World…[Read more]

I last read Significant Others by Armistead Maupin (322 pages) and Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown (246 pages). Significant Others may be the most enjoyable book in this series that I’ve read so far. This time it introduced “the world’s most beautiful fat woman,” a model named Wren, and a woman-only campground/festival situation called…[Read more]

Oh god, I have been absent for too long! Unfortunately, I have only read one book since my last post which was Tolkien’s Return of The King (385 pages). Since picking up another job (working two now!) the only time I have to read is on my commute to/from Chicago. Anyway! Adored it, as expected. The Houses of Healing was definitely my favorite…[Read more]

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I do most of my reading during my morning commute, and I still get a little embarrassed sometimes when I’m reading a graphic novel on the train because I feel like people around me with less discerning taste might think it’s a kids’ book. One time I had one such graphic novel with me when I stopped by my neighborhood liquor…[Read more]

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Ack, I’ve gotten ridiculously behind on book club updates. My friend and I made a giant list of books we have to read before we die, so I’ve been doing that — I read Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (320 pages), which was rhapsodic and beautiful and disturbing and devastating, and made me have visions of F. Scott…[Read more]

@internrachel @julia1 Yesterday I read An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin (304 pages) in one sitting, due to really bad cramps and not being able to move. I grabbed it because I remembered liking Shopgirl (though the movie didn’t do anything for me–I think because it creeped me out that Steve Martin cast himself) and it happened to be on display…[Read more]

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Today I read Cybele’s Secret by Juliet Marillier (448 pages).

This is the sequel to ‘Wildwood Dancing’ that I read earlier. In this one, the second youngest sister, Paula, accompanies her merchant father on a business trip to Istanbul. Her father’s secretary falls ill and as a scholar, Paula is the best person to fill…[Read more]