The Judges, by Elie Wiesel Wiesel is best known for his Holocaust survival memoir Night, and his work continues along the vein of questioning good, evil, innocence, and guilt when five random strangers are brought together by a man who refers only to himself as 'The Judge,' forcing them to question the truth, effort, and perhaps even the futility ( Read more... )

I always need something non-school related to lull me to sleep, so in addition to reading at night, these were read mostly during Winter and Spring Break.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl The one pitfall to paperbacks is that they come without dust jackets, where one can locate crucial information about the story and author ( Read more... )

I never got around to posting these, and since I'm procrastinating I figured I might as well. So on with it!

White Teeth by Zadie Smith Smith weaves a tale across among three families, two of those comprising the focus of her story. A good book about love, war, race, and varied multi-generational perspectives of the above it ends with a sudden ( Read more... )

I joined back in April but didn't really do anything with it until recently but am slowly coming to love Goodreads. Last night during a bought of insomnia I added the reviews I had posted here since I started putting them up. And of course the book reviews I post will continue to go up here before anything else :)

Any other book crazy nerds out ( Read more... )

I told you this list was long - I had meant to put up a good chunk of these over my winter break when I had finished half of them, but never got around to it so the list just grew longer and here we are, 18 books and almost a year later. The last review I put up was just before I went back to school and these were read on my breaks and sometimes as ( Read more... )

One more month of leisure reading - hopefully this won't be the last review before I start school...

Please Note: I tagged all the other review entries - you can see the tag on the comment page and if you are interested in going back and seeing other books I have devoured and reviewed, just clickie on the underlined link entitled "book reviews" ( Read more... )

Memoirs of a Geisha Beautiful, descriptive language that weaves a really poignant tale. It was slow to get into but its one of those books that you think you can put down but really discover you can't stop reading it.

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Man in the World Jacobs interweaves random facts with humorous ( Read more... )

A Million Little Pieces I don't care what the hype is, what the lies are in this book - it was an amazing story. Just read it like fiction and you won't be dissappointed.

Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of the Campus Homosexuals This was enthralling and fascinating. In 1920 a young man on medical leave from Harvard committed suicide ( Read more... )

So for those who are new or relatively new to my journal, I decided I might as well review the books I read, since I read voraciously. Every now and then I post a public entry with a snippet of my thoughts.

These are the most recent reads - there are 8 since I haven't posted reviews in about two months. Enjoy!

How to Make Love like a Porn Star: A ( Read more... )

They Change the Subject This book is an easy read, easily finished in under two hours. The narrator walks you through stories about working as an escort, his tricks, his searches for love and lust, his heartbreak, and his hope. Its both bittersweet and at times humorous with an undertone of a glimmer of hope.

Lunar Park A compelling page turner ( Read more... )