Book review: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

It’s been a while since I’ve read a book for adults, and Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle had me rubbing my eyes. Some things you can’t unsee.

Book review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

I did something bad last night. I stayed up really late to finish Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Yeah, as vices go, reading until the wee hours is probably not so bad. Occupational hazard. Anyway, here’s my more-or-less professional take on this latest installment in the Potterverse. Over the summer, I finished rereading all seven Harry…Continue reading Book review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Book review: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Carrie Brownstein is a personal hero of mine. She is just…so cool. At least, she seems like it, from a distance. How could the guitarist/vocalist of Sleater-Kinney and Wild Flag and the writer/actress from Portlandia not be cool? In that self-deprecating, sense-of-humor as well as sense-of-style way the truly cool have. I mean, what a…Continue reading Book review: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl