Monthly Archives: August 2011

Bodily Harm

Posted on 29 August 2011 by

Author: Margaret Atwood Pages: 300 (mass-market) Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (1981) Rating: 3.5 stars Ever since I read The Handmaid’s Tale in high school, I have been a big fan of Atwood’s work. I liked her books so much that … Continue reading →

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Old School

Posted on 26 August 2011 by

Author: Tobias Wolf Pages: 195 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf a division of Random House (2003) Rating: 4 stars Set in a remote, nondescript all-boys boarding school in New England, Old School is anything but “old school.” After the first page, … Continue reading →

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The Family Fang

Posted on 22 August 2011 by

Author: Kevin Wilson Pages: 309 Publisher: HarperCollins (2011) Rating: 4.5 stars Last Friday, on my lunch hour, I wandered into the Harvard Coop (Longwood) to look for Kevin Wilson’s new book The Family Fang. I’ve read a lot about this … Continue reading →

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Love in the Time of Cholera

Posted on 18 August 2011 by

Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Pages: 348 Publisher: Vintage Books, a division of Random House (1988) Original Language: Spanish (1985), translated by Edith Grossman Rating: 4.5 stars She was embarrassed when she greeted him, and he was more embarrassed by her … Continue reading →

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Kevin Wilson at the Harvard Bookstore

Posted on 11 August 2011 by

Just found out that Kevin Wilson will be reading from his debut novel, The Family Fang, which is about a weird Southern family, at the Harvard Book Store on August 22nd. And it’s free (!), which means I will be … Continue reading →

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The Kid

Posted on 9 August 2011 by

Author: Sapphire Pages: 384 Publisher: Penguin Press 2011 Rating: 4 stars A couple of weeks ago, I went to the Brattle Theater in Cambridge to see Sapphire (author of Push) talk about her new book The Kid. Her reading was … Continue reading →

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Annie John

Posted on 8 August 2011 by

Title: Annie John Author: Jamaica Kincaid Pages: 148 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1983 Rating: 4.5 stars I have been looking forward to reading Annie John since I listened to “Figures in the Distance” on The New Yorker fiction podcast. Jamaica Kincaid … Continue reading →

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Camera

Posted on 3 August 2011 by

Author: Jean-Phillipe Toussaint Pages: 125 Publisher: Les Editions de Minuit 1988 Original language: French, translated by Mathew B. Smith Rating: 2.5 stars This is a very short read; it is only about 120 pages. Camera lacks any significant plot line … Continue reading →

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Boston Book Festival!!

Posted on 2 August 2011 by

Twitter is my hero. I hear about so much cool stuff via tweeps (omg I just said tweeps. Forgive me). For example, the Harvard bookstore (@HarvardBooks) advertised a book event at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge last Thursday. The author … Continue reading →

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Murder on the Orient Express

Posted on 1 August 2011 by

Author: Agatha Christie Pages: 288 Publisher: UK Collins Crime Club 1934 Rating: 3.5 stars Agatha Christie, we all know the name of this early 20th century English novelist. She’s famous for her now-old-school murder mysteries reminiscent of Clue and her iconic … Continue reading →

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