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Some First-World Complaints About My Life (Loosely Disguised as a Review of Alan Sepinwall’s The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers, and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever)
The revolution was televised – but I missed it because I was too busy grading papers. I have such mixed feelings about the intensity of my teaching career. On the one hand, I loved my work. Every time I see … Continue reading
Final Thoughts on Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
My first thought of reflection when I finished this book was “Good. Now I have something to post about tonight, and I can put this book on the shelf.” This was quite an enjoyable book, but by the end of … Continue reading
A Review of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
I’m a little sorry that Feminism Month is almost over. I knew from the beginning that my goals were too ambitious, but I’m still sorry I didn’t reread Mating, which is one of my favorite contemporary novels, and I also … Continue reading
Progress Report on Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Okay, now I feel like I’ve read enough of this book to do a proper post about it. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena came to me by way of Powell’s Indiespensible last year. It is the author’s first novel, though … Continue reading
Thoughts on the Opening of Anna Karenina
I think the first chapter of Anna Karenina would be stronger without its iconic opening line. Am I even allowed to say this? Will lightning strike the minute I click ‘Publish’? It’s hard to find a novel more beloved and … Continue reading
A Review of Tobias Wolff’s The Barracks Thief
I’ll say it so you don’t have to: I broke out the short books this weekend. I was feeling bummed that the list of books I’ve read so far this year is so short and that I hardly ever finish … Continue reading
Now with real textual support of my opinions: my review of Kim Harrison’s The Undead Pool.
The worst thing about this book is that it has this feeling of getting things ready for a big end-of-series climax (this is the penultimate book of The Hollows series). There are way too many questions left at the end … Continue reading
A Review of Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
My first undergrad creative writing professor told us never to write ‘bathtub stories.’ A bathtub story, she said, was a story in which the protagonist is in some kind of static location – like a bathtub – recollecting all the … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Fiction - general, Mohsin Hamid, Reviews by Bethany
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Progress Report on Kim Harrison’s The Undead Pool
Thanks to a poorly timed nap this afternoon, I have less than a hundred pages to go in the latest Kim Harrison book, The Undead Pool, and I still have to exercise and go to bed at a reasonable hour … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction - Fantasy, Fiction - general, Fiction - Vampire Porn, Kim Harrison, Reviews by Jill
Tagged Kim Harrison, The Hollows
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Postcards From Purgatory 