This book had such potential, but Neal Pollack is a fairly unlikable guy. He knows this and tells you straight up, but I still thought there would be something redeemable after making it through the whole book. He seems to be on a quest for self improvement, but every conversation with his wife i...
Truly, Madly, BouncyNeal Pollack's Jewball is - amazingly - based on real characters and events. But the story might appeal to anyone with a love of chicken soup and basketball.It seems that American Jews had a lot more to do with popularising basketball than I ever imagined, and they had 'skin i...
As I've been getting more and more into not just reading books, but also reading about books (on fine blogs like Bookslut and 50 Books), I've noticed that there are a few names that are often used as examples of both what is right and what is wrong with writers today - "you either love 'em or hat...