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15
Jul
2010
Honeymoon in Tehran by Azadeh Moaveni
Azadeh Moaveni published this book slightly too early. It came out last year before the riots over the election in Iran. Thus I assume this sequel to Lipstick Jihad will become the second book in a trilogy.
3
Jun
2010
Epileptic by David B.
I don’t often talk explicitly about the art when reviewing graphic novels. To me, the art is usually secondary to the story (and the writing thereof). But the art in David B.’s Epileptic blew my mind.
2
Jun
2010
Adventures in Cartooning by James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost
Dewey Decimal System! You have failed! This book is in the wrong section. Sure, it’s with the other books about cartoons and comics in the 740’s, but it should be with the YA section. The reading ages is 4-8 for crying out loud!
12
Jan
2010
The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattin
I had a few problems with what was otherwise and interesting, edifying read.
15
Dec
2009
A Link to a Short Review
Why, is this me compiling a list of reasons to read or not to read Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson?
30
Sep
2009
Everything Sucks by Hannah Friedman
The grass isn’t greener on the otherside. But that never stops people from hopping the fence. Hannah Friedman grew up with a monkey for a sister. Literally. How cool is that? Apparently not so cool when you are known as “monkey girl” for ever and ever and step on monkey shit and are outdone by a creature that eats spaghetti with her toes.
29
Sep
2009
The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
I have mixed feelings about this book. Mixed feelings about the way it was written and its content.
8
Jul
2009
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
So, there’s this guy, Chris “Alex Supertramp” McCandless, and he’s kinda emo, ’cause he overdosed on Tolstoy, Thereau, and London. He’s pissed at his parents (keep in mind that despite my emo reference this IS 1990) so after he graduates, he donates his 24K to charity (money that a relative had left him for his education), cuts off all ties to his family, and lives in the desert. But that’s not enough for him. As I said, he read a lot of London, so he goes to live in Alaska, with a cheap tent and home made sleeping bag, and there he dies.
24
Jun
2009
The Chess Artist by J.C. Hallman
My brother-in-law bought this book thinking it was a guide to playing chess. He wasn’t wrong, per se. It is about chess, about chess theory, about different moves, with fantastical sounding names. And while you might pick up some new mad skillz, you’d have to be a far better chess player than I, who knows only how to castle and walk the pieces, in order to do so.
22
Jun
2009
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
Are you Gen X? IF the answer is yes, then you will love this book, and find it hilarious, see yourself mirrored in its image, and pass it on to all of your contemporaries. If the answer is no, because you were born BEFORE Gen Xers, you might giggle at the humor of the book, but more likely, you will wonder about the future of the country and which of your children have done what drugs. If you were born AFTER Gen Xers, you will LOL, see the occasional similarity between your own life and culture and theirs, but mostly wonder what the hell Klosterman is talking about and why anyone should care.
