Currently Reading: One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (1967) Thoughts: One Hundred Years of Solitude may be the best book I’ve ever read.  I cannot think…

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Currently Reading: Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2007) Thoughts: What brave, daring, complex storytelling!  I would make a very serious case that Adichie is among…

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Currently Reading: Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (1925) Thoughts: What can I possibly add to the wealth of literature surrounding this book?  I read Mrs. Dalloway primarily…

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Currently Reading: Mohsin Hamid

Moth Smoke (2000), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013) Thoughts: I tore through these books in about a week and…

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Currently Reading: The Sirens of Titan

The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut (1959) Thoughts: In his foreword to While Mortals Sleep, the latest posthumous Vonnegut story collection, Dave Eggers calls Vonnegut…

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Currently Reading: The Sense of an Ending

The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes (2011) Thoughts: Grad school and my own reading have taught me never to propel a reader’s interest through…

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Currently Reading: Louise Erdrich

The Antelope Wife (1998); “The Years of My Birth” (2011) Thoughts: Louise Erdrich got her MFA in Poetry from Hopkins, and her every line of fiction…

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Currently Reading: Karen Russell

Vampires in the Lemon Grove (2013); St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2006) Thoughts: Apparently, Vampires went over poorly with the reading group I…

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Currently reading: Americanah

Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013) Thoughts: Beautiful, deft prose.  Tragic romance (my favorite kind; not in the classical sense), but a more thoughtful than…

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