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Early Thoughts on Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins
There’s some insomnia going on here at Casa Purgatory, and since it’s almost midnight I thought I would be productive and get Sunday’s blog post out of the way. It will be a short one, because I’ve only read 71 … Continue reading
Progress report on David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks (by Jill)
Read All Day Friday was a complete bust yesterday. It turned into Organize Your Hall Closet, Take Old Clothes to Goodwill, and Buy a Bunch of Books You Don’t Need but Felt Obligated to Buy in Order to Support … Continue reading
Thoughts on Act I of The Merchant of Venice
The next play being “covered” by a contemporary author in the Hogarth Shakespeare series is The Merchant of Venice. Howard Jacobson’s adaptation, called Shylock is My Name, was released last week, and I’m looking forward to reading it soon. And … Continue reading
Progress Report on David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks (by Jill)
Yesterday was a very productive reading day. And I even finished the laundry, and got the dogs walked, and enjoyed a downpour during said walk. I wish I were retired sometimes. I’d get so much more done if I … Continue reading
Sad News
Today at Postcards from Purgatory, our thoughts are with this guy, who announced to his social media contacts this morning that he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He says that he plans to fight it and I have no … Continue reading
Lack of Progress on The Bone Clocks & Saturday Night at the Movies (by Jill)
Do you guys remember those posts I wrote last year about things I was doing while I was supposed to be reading Richard Powers’ Orfeo? I have a bad feeling I’m going to be writing another series of those while … Continue reading
Final Thoughts on DeLillo’s End Zone (by Bethany)
I won’t be reading all day today, but that’s okay. Life is allowed to intrude on reading sometimes. Reviewing a Don DeLillo novel – even a sort of embryonic, proto-DeLillo novel like End Zone – is a daunting task. For … Continue reading
Brief Update on David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks (by Jill)
I did not make as much progress on The Bone Clocks over the past two days as I wanted to, but I think that with this book it might be better to proceed in a slow and steady manner … Continue reading
Wrenching the Last Bit of Celebration Out of Christmas of 1997: Thoughts on the First Half of Don DeLillo’s End Zone (by Bethany)
When I was a senior in college, I asked for and received all of Don DeLillo’s novels for Christmas. Underworld had just been published, so I received that one in hardback and the others in paperback. I read them all … Continue reading
A Review of Kate Atkinson’s Human Croquet (by Bethany)
Note: This review deals candidly with the ending of the novel. If you want to avoid “spoilers,” you should avoid reading the second half of this review. After a very slow start, I did end up enjoying parts of Human … Continue reading
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