Book 95: The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
To be completely honest this book was sort of “meh”. (Imagine a teenager with a blank look on their face […]
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Book 80: I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. – John Donovan
I finished reading this book last week, but wanted to take the time to digest what I’d read. I’m still
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Book 69: The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
A friend in undergrad recommended I read this novel and I’m sad it took me this long to read it. The Namesake is one of the most beautifully and eloquently written novels I have read this year, if not ever.
There is something so simple and yet strikingly intricate in Lahiri’s prose. I can only compare her to the lyrical like prose I’ve read from many Irish authors. I found myself repeating sentences in my head because of their artful construction. The foreign names, foods, and customs interwoven with the familiar places and customs created a story I couldn’t put down. I’ve compared Jhumpa Lahiri to Jane Austen, in the ordinariness of what she writes and her style, and I stand by this, but it is the lives and deaths—the full picture, rather than the snapshot—at which Lahiri excels.
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Book 63: Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street – Herman Melville
This is my first introduction to Herman Melville. I don’t believe I’ve read any bits of Moby Dick, even though
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Book 55: Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
“Sex everywhere: it was slopping over, a neap tide that swept the props from under the city.” (204) This quote
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