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2014 – The RB Lit Review

December 31, 2014 by Drew

And so, friends, we come to the end of another year.  So many books read, so much to recap – so let’s dive in. VITAL STATS, YEAR FOUR: Books Read: 137 Pages Read: 48,900 (an exact round number – weiiiird) Average Rating: 3.89 (a definite drop from the last two years, although this may reflect a somewhat broader scope of reading? or sharper critical thinking? who knows.) Highest Rating(s): – 6 out of 5 Jeff VanderMeer’s The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance) was maybe the […]

Categories: Features • Tags: A Visit From The Goon Squad, Acceptance, Annihilation, Authority, Bad Books, Broken Monsters, China Miéville, Dani Lencioni, David Mitchell, DC Pierson, Edgar Cantero, Embassytown, Eric Setiawan, FSG Originals Series, good Books, Harper Perennial, Haruki Murakami, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Jeff Vandermeer, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, Junot Diaz, Kafka on the Shore, Karen Russell, Katherine Faw Morris, Lauren Beukes, Lena Dunham, Meg Wolitzer, Murakami 2014, Nick Harkaway, Not That Kind of Girl, Of Bees and Mist, Olive Editions, Parties, Shirley Jackson, So Many Damn Books, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, The Bone Clocks, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never had to, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The City and the City, The Interestings, The Marriage Plot, The Morning News, The People in the Trees, The Southern Reach Trilogy, The Supernatural Enhancements, The Tournament of Books 2014, Tigerman, Vonnegut 201x, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Woolf 2015, year in review, You Should Have Known, Young God

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The Virgin Suicides

May 23, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: The story of the five Lisbon sisters, young girls growing up in the suburbs of Detroit in the early part of the second half of the last century, and the boys who were bewitched by them.  After Cecilia takes her own life – unexpectedly, suddenly – the Lisbon family begins to fall apart while the boys of the town attempt to understand these beautiful, complicated girls. The Review: I’ve always believed that certain books are meant for certain […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Fiction, Jeffrey Eugenides, Literature, The Virgin Suicides

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The Marriage Plot

December 3, 2011 by Drew

The Short Version: Brown University, 1982.  Madeleine Hanna is dating Leonard Bankhead, a large and mercurial oaf with a mind like a rocketship, while Mitchell Grammaticus pines away for her.  They graduate and find themselves thrust into that terrifying post-graduate year – coming to terms with ‘the real world’ and finding oneself and dealing with all of the mistakes that come with that terrifying new territory. The Short Version:  From sentence one, I felt like Eugenides wrote this book for me. […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: College, Fiction, Jeffrey Eugenides, Literature, Religion, The Marriage Plot, The Tournament of Books 2012, Travel

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Middlesex

November 8, 2009 by Drew

I love it when assigned reading for an English class is so enjoyable that you want to read faster than you’ve been assigned.  Surprise surprise – the “sophomore” class that I’m taking as a senior (loooong story) has had three books like that so far.  Jane Eyre was good, Lolita was one I had an excuse to get to, and now the Pulitzer Prize-winning Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. The book has always been on my radar (like Lolita) as one […]

Categories: Cannonball Read II, Fiction, Literary Challenges, Literature • Tags: Book #2, Cannonball Read II, Fiction, Jeffrey Eugenides, Literature, MIddlesex

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