Two self-involved, vacuous women who happen to be sisters in law set out to mistreat their husband and lover, respectively and bumble about until they get what’s coming to them, more or less. They are so inane and self-centered that I started rooting for the husband after a couple of chapters, even if he starts [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Los Angeles’
January 9, 2009
The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson
The Lost Art of Walking is an odd book. The author sets out to describe all aspects of what he calls, a bit pedantically, pedestrianism, and he covers a lot of ground (ha ha) including walking references in music and literature, walking through various cities he knows (London, New York, and, funnily enough, Los Angeles) , [...]
September 26, 2008
Mother on Fire by Sandra Tsing Loh
I know it’s supposed to be a satire. I know it’s supposed to be over the top. But Mother on Fire wanders not only over the top but sideways and over to the next valley, leaving the reader confused and often bored by the diatribe approach. About what? Ms. Loh is telling us about her [...]
July 6, 2008
Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey
Bright Shiny Morning is an official piece of fiction, unlike A Million Little PIeces by the same author that started out as a memoir and turned out to be fiction after all… and a great piece of fiction in my mind so why did it have to be misrepresented?
Bright Shiny Morning is not that great. [...]
