A varied month. 50. Twenty-Seventh City, by Jonathan Franzen (Picador , 1988, 2001) To backtrack, I really liked The Corrections, and thought The Discomfort Zone was pretty good, but I felt like I kept waiting for Twenty-Seventh City to make sense. At its most bare, it’s the story of a conspiracy by a group of people …
Happy Canada Day, kids! I love it when it falls on a Friday and we get an extra long weekend in the summer. I mentioned yesterday how I’d like to get more social in regards to books and reading – normally such a solitary activity – so I’m going to try a new series I’m …
Go the Fuck to Sleep, written by Adam Mansbach, began life as a random comment on Facebook. Friends encouraged Mansbach to write it, and he began with a few verses. The illustrations were completed by a friend, Ricardo Cortes, and they found a publisher, Akashic Books, and it shortly went viral, reaching number 1 on …