So I’ve had my computer turned off for one day and John Updike dies.  I figured I could go 36 hours or so without being in constant contact with all the latest stuff, but I was wrong.  You unplug for just a day and something terrible happens. My sister told me yesterday on the phone […]

This week I decided to explore some uncharted territory- the graphic novel.  My suspicion is that a lot of people make the leap from comics to graphic novels.  I’ve never been much into comic books, so it’s probably not that shocking that I never got around to graphic novels either.  That said, for a long […]

This week’s book was Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything, which is pretty much just what it sounds like.

I’ve got a bad/pretentious habit of always selecting big-L Literature when I’m looking for my next book to read.  I often fail, pretending Japanese pop or turn of the century comedy are Important Works.  I blame it on choosing to study Spanish Lit rather than English Lit in college.  So, while I have impressive and […]

After an awesomely bookalicious Christmas, I had some serious considerations to make concerning what book I would use to chime in the new year.  After much hemming and hawing and hand-wringing and snake wrestling, I settled on a wonderful book given to me by a good friend. TTYL, by Lauren Myracle is a book whose […]

After struggling to really make odds and ends of 2666, I chose to go back to a Murakami book that would likely be less..  hard to put together.  So I went with Norwegian Wood, bringing the number of HM books I’ve read to 8, leaving only a handful of novels left and a couple non-fiction […]

I just, minutes ago, finished reading Bolaño’s 2666. Wow. There’s a bit of dialog at the end of the book that I think is appropriate to cite: “…  So what do you think?” “I don’t know what to think,” said Archimboldi. Seriously.  Now is the time when I wish I had the sort of intellect […]