( #ZoneOne, #Zombies ) Frequent readers of this blog know I love zombies and that in my opinion “World War Z” is by far the best zombie fiction written to date (I am just getting that out of the way). That being said, Colson Whitehead’s “Zone One” is an excellent entry into the genre. It […]
Read More Book Review: Zone One by Colson Whitehead( #StephenKing ) I finished up my “holiday reading” choice last night around 3:00 AM. I had “11/22/63” by Stephen King sitting on the shelf for a month and decided it was time to knock it out. The story centers around a teacher that finds a time portal to 1958. He quickly decides to stick […]
Read More Book Review: 11/22/63 by Stephen King( #TheNightCircus, #ErinMorgenstern ) I just finished reading Erin Morgenstern’s “The Night Circus” and I found myself liking it more than I thought I would. The book is about a mysterious traveling circus that (if you can’t figure it out by the title), opens only at night. This circus is essentially the best ever because […]
Read More Book Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern( #MichaelChabon ) Michael Chabon has a well documented love affair with comic books. He wrote the script for the first Spiderman movie, he has written his own comics, and he wrote “The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” which may be one of the finest books about the funny pages in recent memory (if not […]
Read More Book Review: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon( #MichaelChabon ) Over the years Michael Chabon has cemented himself as one of my favorite writers. His recent (and under-appreciated) book of essays “Manhood for Amateurs” resonated with me deeply. Chabon’s fictional work is equally outstanding and almost always extremely quirky. Quirky is the word that I would use to describe “The Yiddish Policeman’s […]
Read More Book Review: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon