Tag: Fiction
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Weekly Reflections #9
In which we return from a break. A few notes from our 3-year delayed honeymoon in New Zealand: Speaking of which, I finished 4 books on the trip/in the last day or so. I think my favorite was Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (now a show on Amazon Prime). It’s a…
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Recommended: Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
As we were walking the dogs earlier today, I said to my wife: “I like this book, and for any other author, it’d be the best thing they did, but I don’t think this one lives up to Little Fires Everywhere.” Then I read the last third of the book this afternoon and I take…
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Recommended: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
This is my favorite book I’ve read thus far in 2023. I am not a literary critic, so I’ll just keep this to a loose plot summary and what I think makes this novel great. Quick Synopsis: Two college students resume their friendship after an acrimonious friend breakup in their early years. We watch this…
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Weekly Reflections #4
Reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (this is really, really good so far and I’m having to parse it out for myself so I can keep enjoying it). I finished It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium by John Ed Bradley, which was pretty darn good. It tackles a fundamental tension: what happens…
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Favorite Books of 2022
This is a short list of my favorite books I read in 2022 (not necessarily released this year). I’ll add a short blurb if I have anything insightful to say about the book, but I’m not a literary critic and I struggled in all of my (3) college English courses so you can take everything…
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Recommended: Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
Six months ago, we had tornados in the area, and we (Michelle, the dog, and me) found ourselves huddled in the closet, waiting out the warning. I may have said something like “I’d be okay dying like this,” which did not elicit rave reactions. To state the obvious: talking and thinking about death is unpleasant.…
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Favorite Novels of 2021
This is a short list of my favorite novels I read in 2021 (not necessarily released this year). I’ll add a short blurb if I have anything insightful to say about the book, but I’m not a literary critic and I struggled in all of my (3) college English courses so you can take everything…
The Minimum Blues 