A quick paced thriller that I read while waiting at the ER and various specialists and Dr’s offices about a “lacerated cornea”. I’m alright. And the book? It was fine.
It was just as a thriller should be. Easy to read, fairly likable characters… there was even a rather touching moral added […]

The classic underachiever, Pablo Jose lives off a stipend from his ridiculously wealthy family. He spends his time sleeping, soliciting prostitutes, smoking hash, drinking heavily and maintaining electronic correspondence with members of an online metaphysical philosophy group all while slumming in an apartment owned by his father.
The back cover compared Tusset’s first novel to […]

My son got me this book for Valentine’s Day while shopping for me at Rite Aid with his Grandma.  He also got me my favorite Easter candy and a Coke.  Being that he is five, I’m not going to fault him for his horrid taste in paperbacks, nor was I funny about being brought Easter […]

The story of Rennie, a young journalist who seeks escape when she goes off to a small island in the Caribbean to write a travel piece. She’s just gone through a break-up and a surgery that took a piece of her body, but left her cancer free. Instead of peace, she finds political […]

This week’s question is suggested by (blogless) JMutford:
Sometimes I find eccentric characters quirky and fun, other times I find them too unbelievable and annoying. What are some of the more outrageous characters you’ve read, and how do you feel about them?
I like eccentric characters, in eccentric novels. A lot. I like the […]