Today’s the brother’s birthday, so this is going to be quick. (There’s always an excuse, right?) Jeremy was born on 8/8/88, making this his eighteenth birthday, and he’s still mentally five years old.
Dude. If it were true that being seen in the Literature section of a Borders meant that people assumed I was reading my mother’s book club choices, I’d pretty much have to shoot myself. (Thanks to Bookslut.)
Kit Whitfield’s top ten genre-defying novels. PS, I do indeed think Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives is pretty underrated as a book.
Oh, Starbucks, I really thought better of you, and considering the source being a senior Literature student at a semi-prestigious liberal arts university that’s saying something. All I have to say is that Tuesdays With Morrie made me want to harm myself.
I find this amusing. Some time back I did indeed buy a copy of Erica Jong’s Seducing the Demon: Writing for my Life, and I did so understanding that… well, that reviews like this would be popping up everywhere. Call it my guilty pleasure: this is my “chick-lit”.
I agree with the Stepford Wives. However, A Secret History, from an editor’s point of view,
had far too many little errors a good editor should have caught.
Comment by Emily — August 8, 2006 @ 10:13 pm
I felt the same way about Tuesdays with Morrie but I’ve never been able to admit it because everyone else I know who has read it adored it and found it so very profound. Gak!
Comment by Stefanie — August 9, 2006 @ 9:07 pm
I’m right there with you on Tuesdays with Morrie. I read it. Yes I cried but I felt so manipulated. Ugh. I just hope Albom doesn’t show up at my Starbucks – I’d have to skip my daily fix ;)
Comment by iliana — August 10, 2006 @ 10:48 am