I finished reading Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates a few weeks ago and tried to sit on an appropriate description of this book; I'm still a little baffled. It's a typical Oates novel in the sense that the characters follow face immense amounts of tragedy (some created, some owned, some cast on them) in a very short span; it also has a taste of ( Read more... )

I just finished World War Z in about 2017* hours; the book was deliciously addictive and not as brutal as I was expecting. I only had to put it down once, during a scene where I man listens to dozens of puppies dying of dehydration behind a barred window. It is otherwise scientific enough to not be gruesome and neutral enough to keep you ( Read more... )