This book is lyrical in the sense that it lulls the reader across a lush landscape of beautifully wrought characters in language delicious to behold and to digest. It begins by allowing the reader to face the situation - a poignant and clever device to draw us into the book. It leaves the reader ...
I am so late to this party it's almost embarrassing and while that may be true, I will also say that this was the PERFECT time to read this book. I started reading Porcupine City (and when you get to the part where Fletcher explains what this means you will never forget it) the instant I finished...
This book was ZILLA AMAAAAAAAZING! Fun and serious at times, laugh out loud funny then completely heart stopping, edge of your seat suspense. Ben Monopoli is an incredible author. The way he writes, the feelings he invokes, the emotions he pulls from you when you read one of his novels is like no...
Maybe every story about getting dumped is cliché. The same surprise, the same denial, the same obviousness in hindsight. In my case even the name is cliché: Johnny. Who hasn’t been dumped by a Johnny? The end began with me waiting for him in the parking lot of a shopping plaza outside campus. A b...
It came from everywhere—the obvious places, but even my own bedroom. “We should buy you new shoes for the dance,” my mother said. My suit was back from the seamstress and she’d realized it was still incomplete. “I don’t need shoes,” I said, wedging the suit into the back of my closet, where I c...