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Category Archive: Books

My Favorite Things in 2014

Bruce Springsteen Live Recordings (Music) Springsteen started releasing full show recordings in 2014, a few days after each […]

December 31, 2014 Books, Movies, Music, TV

Christmas Gift Guide: Celebrity Memoirs (Sitcom Edition)

It’s that time of year, when slim hardbacks by vaguely famous people overrun book store displays. Note: I […]

November 29, 2014 Books

What If? by Randall Munroe (2014)

As a kid, I loved Mad Magazine.  One of Mad’s features was “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions,” which […]

September 18, 2014 Books

Ten Influential Books

I was tagged in one of those Facebook copy-and-paste status updates today, which is normally a surefire way […]

August 27, 2014 Books

Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt (1996)

I downloaded the audiobook of Frank McCourt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela’s Ashes on 5/27/2002. It has taken me until […]

June 30, 2014 Books

My Favorite Things in 2013

Before Midnight A romance for grown-ups. Direction, writing and acting so good you don’t even think about the […]

December 31, 2013 Books, Movies, Music, TV

E Street Shuffle, by Clinton Heylin

Clinton Heylin is a sloppy writer, and he’s not the critic he thinks he is (when he dismisses […]

July 23, 2013 Books

Orange is the New Black, by Piper Kerman

For a college statistics class, I wrote a paper that analyzed the efficacy of the death penalty in […]

June 19, 2013 Books

The 5th Wave, by Rick Yancey

Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave was heralded by Entertainment Weekly as “Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances.” Silly me for not missing […]

May 23, 2013 Books

Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl is a dynamite psychodrama that works as a thriller (the bombshells are fantastic), a […]

March 5, 2013 Books

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