I read "Overstory," a few weeks ago because Chat suggested it as a comp for my novel. I immediately finished it and then started "Playground." As a writer, it is humbling to read something done so well that you yourself want to do. Powers did with the Ocean in...
I can’t remember exactly why I started reading Anna Karenina because it was so long ago, but I am somewhat confident it was a reference to C.S. Lewis’s book about love or maybe the one about grief. It was my hard book. I try to read two books at the same time, an easy...
I loved this book. It's the first one I've read by Mr. Backman, but not the last. That's for sure. It's like John Irving, Wally Lamb, David Mitchel, Jennifer Egan, Michael Chabon, Hernan Diaz--if I see them on a shelf, I buy them. Which reminds me of "The Brief...
As usual, looking for a good comp for The Song of Songs. At first I was excited, because it was a road trip and the protagonist was a 60+ year-old guy, and there was a whiff of magical realism with a sentient cat and a few other things, and it's funny. But. But it's...
I read this at least a month ago. It was part of my unending search for comp titles. I read it because of the speculative fiction aspect and magical realism, and it was a love story, as most books are, but I can't use it. At least I could read it, and I liked the...
In the moments before he died, Mathias Thompson suddenly understood, with a cerulean certainty of the sky being blue on a cloudless summer day, that there was a God. An immense sadness expanded within him, and he recalled the time his mother took him to walk the Via...
