Thursday, June 26, 2008
Elvis Costello, Armed Forces
In Manhattan, St Mark’s Bookshop sponsors a reading at Solas with authors from the 33 1/3 series ofchapbooks about rock. Tonight’s names include L. D. Beghtol, discussing the Magnetic Fields’ “69 Love Songs,” Franklin Bruno on Elvis Costello’s “Armed Forces,” and Elisabeth Vincentelli on ABBA.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Mark Haddon
by Mark Haddon
Review:
This is Mark Haddon's dark debut novel, about an autistic fifteen-year-old boy who tries to figure out a murder. Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and a socially awkward teen, who cannot relate to any of his peers and is fascinated by adults. His mom dies and his father is left to raise him on his own, or at least that's what we are meant to think. I really enjoyed the beginning of this story, but felt the ending finished flat. It is worth the read, if you are in education or fascinated by people a little out of the ordinary.
My #1 summer read pick...
by Joseph O'Neill
From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com
Reviewed by Siri Hustvedt
In Joseph O'Neill's third novel, Netherland, there are two great love objects: the city of New York and the game of cricket. Hans van den Broek, the novel's Dutch narrator, seeks solace in both the place and the sport after September 11, 2001, when he finds himself adrift in the city. We know he watched the destruction on television in the midtown office where he works, that the trauma that followed is the ostensible reason for his foundering marriage, and that the catastrophe forced him, his wife, Rachel, and young son, Jake, out of their Tribeca loft and into the Hotel Chelsea. When Rachel leaves for London with Jake, Hans slides into a state of depressed alienation, which is relieved, in part, by playing cricket in the city's outer boroughs with like-minded comrades from the West Indies and Asia.
From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com
Reviewed by Siri Hustvedt
In Joseph O'Neill's third novel, Netherland, there are two great love objects: the city of New York and the game of cricket. Hans van den Broek, the novel's Dutch narrator, seeks solace in both the place and the sport after September 11, 2001, when he finds himself adrift in the city. We know he watched the destruction on television in the midtown office where he works, that the trauma that followed is the ostensible reason for his foundering marriage, and that the catastrophe forced him, his wife, Rachel, and young son, Jake, out of their Tribeca loft and into the Hotel Chelsea. When Rachel leaves for London with Jake, Hans slides into a state of depressed alienation, which is relieved, in part, by playing cricket in the city's outer boroughs with like-minded comrades from the West Indies and Asia.
Found in the Margins
An online magazine that delves into the reading habits and preferred literary works of your favourite musicians, authors, and activists.
*This is a website that is definitely worth checking out!
Stephenie Meyer
* My students cannot stop talking about Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight Series and her first adult novel The Host. This book is coined as "Science fiction for people who don't like science fiction." Here is the author's website, where you can read a few excerpts from her books. She is really worth checking out! www.stepheniemeyer.com/index.html
Famous Bookshelves
Friday, June 6, 2008
Paste and Peter Markus
One of my favorite magazines, Paste, has just reviewed one of my new favorite authors, Peter Markus.
Check out this link below to read a review of his latest book Bob, or Man on Boat.
http://bluetoad.com/publisher/pastemag/Paste_Magazine/issue5//magazine.php?mag=Paste_Magazine&page=&type=2&logo=0&issueid=4096
http://bluetoad.com/publisher/pastemag/Paste_Magazine/issue5//magazine.php?mag=Paste_Magazine&page=&type=2&logo=0&issueid=4096
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