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BOSCO Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chestnutt by Kristin Hirsh "This is the story of the musical partnership and friendship between Vic Chestnutt and Kristin Hersh. Her writing style is beautiful, poetic, and really unique; there is no one else out there writing like her. The story is crushingly sad in its exploration of … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week: Weekend Edition
MOLLY Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh "Lady noir at its best! Eileen is one of those books set in a time of censorship (the early 60s), that reads like it was written in the early 1960s, and then hidden for years until its salacious material could finally be published. By which I mean, this story reads accurately as … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
CRISTINA The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beacon "This week I am reading The Princess and the Pony to my daughter Luna. It's a funny and endearing tale starring the lovable princess-who-would-be-warrior, Pinecone. There are cozy sweaters and pony farts, what more could you ask for? How about a plethora of interesting characters, with … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
MOLLY Missing Person by Patrick Modiano "I'm reading this one for the Murder in the Afternoon book club, meeting at BookPeople this upcoming Tuesday. Ever since I found out that Modiano had won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014, wrote the screenplay for Lacombe, Lucien,and primarily wrote detective novels, I've been anticipating reading his … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
BETHANY Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes "I love this book because its protagonist, Geoffrey Braithwaite, is a lot like me. There are some surface differences---I am not old, a man, a retired doctor, or (at least to my knowledge) fictional---but we are both obsessed with Gustave Flaubert, 19th-century French master of realism and author of such … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
BOSCO Blue Belle by Andrew Vachss "I started working my way through the Burke series, by Andrew Vachss, last year, and I just finished the third one, Blue Belle. I like the series because the character is really seedy and I like his crew/family of helpers (he calls them the family you choose in the … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
BETHANY If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes This 1940s novel about a black man working in a Los Angeles shipyard during World War II is incredibly moving, powerful, and unlike anything I've read before. It closely follows the inner life of the protagonist, Bob Jones, through four emotionally turbulent (yet typical) days … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
ROBYN 11/22/63 by Stephen King "I am currently reading 11/22/63 by Stephen King after months (years?) of procrastination. I watched my fiancé (now husband) wake up in the middle of the night just to read one more chapter and still never gave it a shot until now. Why, you may ask? It's big. Really big. … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
MOLLY The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud "The concept of this book hooked me right from the start - Kamel Daoud has rewritten The Stranger, Camus' classic existentialist novel set in Algeria, from the perspective of the Arab victims. I'm just a few pages in, and already, Daoud lyrically delivers the critiques of colonialist literature … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
GREGORY Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler "According to Chandler, Los Angeles in 1940 was a very down and out town. Searching for a missing woman, Philip Marlowe strolls through a segregated city deflecting gangsters, drunks, and exhausted cops. This is a great portrait of depression-era LA where the drinks are rye, everyone wears cheap suits, … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
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