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A Review of Dorothy Baker’s Cassandra at the Wedding (by Bethany)
( The New York Review of Books Classics Series really is a wonderful resource for people who like to read. If you’re not familiar with it, this is a series that resurrects high-quality books from all around the world that … Continue reading
Final thoughts on John Williams’ Stoner (by Jill)
I think Stoner is my favorite book of 2015 so far. Yes, I know I’ve only finished three books so far and am about a third of the way through my fourth. But one of my favorite books of 2014 … Continue reading
Thoughts on the First Third of Matthew Thomas’ We Are Not Ourselves (by Bethany)
I am reading several books at once, as I often do, but I am not feeling frantic and stressed about finishing them, as I sometimes do. Without that stressed feeling, reading lots of books at once is great. It’s like … Continue reading
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Final Thoughts on Veronica Roth’s Divergent (by Jill)
I love dystopian young adult fiction. Its major downside is that it doesn’t necessarily lend itself to intelligent discourse and discussion. I finished Divergent last Friday and have been trying to figure out what direction to take my review in … Continue reading
Thoughts on Wise Blood (by Bethany)
Flannery O’Connor died of lupus when she was thirty-nine, and here I two days after my thirty-ninth birthday, trying to channel her spirit enough to make some sense of Wise Blood. Several of O’Connor’s stories – “Good Country People,” “A … Continue reading
A tale of two books: Progress Report on John Williams’ Stoner and Veronica Roth’s Divergent (by Jill)
I bet everyone has heard of at least one of these books, and I bet it isn’t the one by the guy with the same name as the guy who composed all the music for all the Star Wars movies. … Continue reading
A Review of Paolo Giordano’s The Solitude of Prime Numbers (by Bethany)
This is a light, easy, compelling read – much lighter and easier than one might expect from an author with a Ph.D in physics. While the number symbolism (in the title and occasionally elsewhere) is my least favorite part of … Continue reading
Thoughts on José Saramago’s Death with Interruptions (by Jill)
First, off, Happy New Year, everyone! I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays, and that you’re ready for a new year spent with us here on PfP. When my boss gave me this book, this is how she prefaced it: “I … Continue reading
New Year, New (Disappointing) Book about Priests in Space: A Review of Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things (by Bethany)
I love a good book about priests in space. Though I am willing to interpret this genre loosely (more on this in a moment), its epitome is Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow, which is about a Jesuit mission into outer … Continue reading
A Review of Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face (by Bethany)
Once again I’ve violated my rule about not reading books about dying children. In Lucy Grealy’s extremely well-written memoir Autobiography of a Face, the part that actually involves a dying child isn’t even the bleakest part of Grealy’s story. This … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 