Reading Envy

Apparently yesterday was such a lazy Sunday, I never even blogged what I meant to blog!  I needed something distracting but not intense, so ...

Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard My rating: 4 of 5 stars I find it difficult to know how to talk about this book. I loved the vi...

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was longlisted for the Booker prize in 2010, but I just now finished listening t...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon My rating: 4 of 5 stars When I read this back in 2005, I remember being...

I got the Giller Prize wrong , but I never got to read the winner, so what can you do.  Congratulations to Esi Edugyan and her win for Half-...

As promised in my last entry, I have read the Kindle previews for all  National Book Award candidates and ranked them in the order of my pr...

Time has gotten away from me!  When the finalists for the National Book Award were first announced, I read and ruminated on the poetry cate...