Here's my reading list from this year, linked to reviews when I've written them.

Contemporary-ish Novels
1. Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan 
2.Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
3. Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks
4. Like Never Before by Ehud Havazelet
5. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
6. The Echo Maker by ( Read more... )

It may be obvious to many that I have a certain obsession with 1) the social psychology of bullying and 2) crimes perpetrated by adolescent girls, so it should be no surprise to anyone that my most recent read was Under the Bridge, which chronicles the true story of the murder of Reena Virk in Vancouver B.C. Reena was beaten by a large group of ( Read more... )