Archive for the 'Books' Category


Beach Read

“Pineapple Street”: https://tinyurl.com/5c3vmd4b As in the book doesn’t demand much, but calls out to you and keeps you reading. As a matter of fact, once I started, I finished in a day. Because I was invested, I wanted to know how it all turned out. This is the story of the rich you don’t see […]

Romantic Comedy

https://tinyurl.com/yc3anpmh This book is mind-blowingly good. But you won’t feel that way at first, you’ll think it’s a trifle, a direct lift of “Saturday Night Live,” akin to Curtis Sittenfeld’s book about Hillary Clinton, “Rodham,” wherein she breaks up with Bill before marriage and a different story ensues. I mean “Rodham” is a good read, […]

The Nebraska Book

“Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska”: https://tinyurl.com/2vyfav58 It’s not the book I thought it would be. And that’s a good thing. I thought it would be a detailed explanation of each and every track on “Nebraska,” whereas it’s a snapshot of Bruce more than the work. In the vernacular, it’s about […]

The Guest

https://tinyurl.com/ycxfxfye This is one of the creepiest books I’ve ever read. To the point where I constantly had to stop reading it, even though I was enjoying it, it just heightened my anxiety and made me squirm. But it’s not horror, it’s not a thriller. Ostensibly it’s about the lives of the different classes, but […]