D-Tales: May (Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple)
I’m not sure very many teenagers would ask for a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for getting good grades, but that’s exactly what Bee does in Where’d You Go Bernadette. In… Read More
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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
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
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
D-Tales: October (Shadow of Night)
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness is about witches and vampires, and is the sequel to a book I read back in April. If you’ll recall, I mentioned that it didn’t really end.… Read More
D-Tales: September (The Psychopath Test)
The Psychopath Test is the true story about Jon Ronson’s hunt to identify psychopaths in society. Ronson, a journalist, was asked to investigate a mysterious book that had been sent to many of… Read More
D-Tales: August (Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig)
I’ll admit it. I bought this book, because I had heard a lot of hype about the author, Chuck Wendig, so I was sort of expecting to read about actual blackbirds, since that’s… Read More
