I’m always a little turned off by the idea of sci-fi… I want to like it, I’m just pretty sure I won’t. So I’ve never given it a proper chance.
So, books like this, where there is a science fiction element, without the characters being too far fetched 4 legged aliens… it’s a good compromise.
And I […]

I don’t really see how I could possibly hate a Judy Blume novel.
It was a bit indulgent, and the plot although maybe risqué at the time has been done plenty and hers wasn’t especially wonderful, or insightful, or brilliantly written.  But all the same.  Judy Blume.  Come on.

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 […]

I have been fascinated with all things Persian as of late. I like the idea of getting a glimpse, even if fictional, into a place that has only connotation of oppression and terrorism from the media. I liked the aspect of this book showing the Iranian people as beautiful and complicated, just as […]

I liked this book. I spent awhile after finishing it, trying to pin-point any part of it that made me like it. But there isn’t anything. Nothing about it was spectacular, but I liked it all the same. The plot was kind of interesting, with the story of a […]