D-Tales: April (Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil)
I just finished this book with a sense of “what just happened here?” Did these things really happen, or were they just hallucinations? Because they very well could have been with an opium… Read More
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D-Tales: March (Skippy Dies by Paul Murray)
Skippy Dies. It’s both the name and the main event of Paul Murray’s novel. But don’t worry. That’s not a give-away. It happens right there in the first chapter. It’s the why and… Read More
D-Tales: February (The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman)
Striving for mediocrity and settling for less is how the characters in The Imperfectionists operate. A novel by Tom Rachman, it’s the story of an English language newspaper in Rome and the people… Read More
D-Tales: January (The White Devil by Justin Evans)
Do you believe in ghosts? What about love? No? Well, just humour me for a minute here. The White Devil by Justin Evans is about both those things. Andrew Taylor, the protagonist, is… Read More
D-Tales: December (The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides)
If you love someone, let them go. That pretty much summarizes this book in a cliché. It’s sort of depressing, but then again, depression is also a theme in The Marriage Plot by… Read More
BRAINPORN: December (Sacré Bleu by Christopher Moore)
Ever read a book that just BLOWS YOUR FUCKING MIND WITH HOW ADDICTIVE IT IS? Well, Christopher Moore roped me in with this one and didn’t let me go until the book ended.… Read More
Discovered at Expozine
Expozine 2012 has come and gone and we at the B.U. team can’t begin to express what a wonderful time we had. We had some laughs, met some great people and spent too… Read More
D-Tales: November (Ablutions by Patrick DeWitt)
Ablutions by Patrick DeWitt is supposed to be notes for a novel that never gets written. The narrator, whose name evidently, is so insignificant that it never gets mentioned, is a bartender in… Read More
BRAINPORN: November (The Wrecking Crew by Kent Hartman)
I wish I’d’ve been born in the mid-forties. I would have been just the right age to experience the sixties and seventies, and live through the glory of those years, musically. Knowing myself,… Read More
