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…
Read MoreMrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (1925) Thoughts: What can I possibly add to the wealth of literature surrounding this book? I read Mrs. Dalloway primarily…
Read MoreThe Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut (1959) Thoughts: In his foreword to While Mortals Sleep, the latest posthumous Vonnegut story collection, Dave Eggers calls Vonnegut…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreVampires 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…
Read MoreAmericanah, 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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