This book was an adventure, but a quiet one. Other books have transported me from place to place, but The Particular Sadness of a Lemon Cake was like flipping through episodes of a TV show. I liked the idea about "special skills" and how everyone seems to deal differently. There was no thrill, th...
I love Aimee Bender’s writing. Her short stories are probably the weirdest things I’ve ever read, but they’re done so well. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt is possibly my favorite volume by Bender, full of super-short short stories that are funny and strange and grotesquely sexual and excellent a...
There was an old man in Germany who thought he was a Nazi. He turned himself in to a small court in a town near Nuremberg, and said, “Restart the trials; I should be punished for what I have done.” He seemed to be around the right age, and his name was a fairly common German name—Hoefler—and his ...