Kathy's Review:Another TBR Pile Challenge book. This one has been on my TBR pile since 2010, when it received literary acclaim. I had very high hopes for this one, as it centers around a music producer who falls for a girl in a band. I was hoping for some hip, Nick Hornby-like writing. I think wh...
4.5 - at least.In Arthur Phillip’s brilliant and entertaining The Egyptologist, not one but two unreliable narrators weave epistolary narratives about related events in the 1920s. In these accounts, facts, suppositions, and obsessions, events and identities sift and shift like sands in the dese...
"What does it mean to fret about your fledgling career when the man across the table was tortured by two different regimes? How does your short, uneventful life compare to the lives of those who actually resisted, fought, and died? What does your angst mean in a city still pocked with bullet hole...
For several minutes that was the extent of the attack: she should have seen “it” coming, she kept thinking, even though there was no “it” other than the stinging blame that she should have seen it coming. She was in the bathroom stall an hour before stage time, and she was still there five minute...