Category Books
More misérables!
Finally, after FOUR LONG MONTHS, I’ve finished Volume I! Okay, so it may have taken my Mormon pioneer ancestors less time to cross the Great Plains than it took me to read the first half of everyone’s favorite eighteen-hundred-page novel. So what! At least nobody’s died of cholera along the way. And besides, we can chalk this […]
Les Miserables, or Here we go again
In case you haven’t heard, the musical Les Misérables is coming to a movie theatre near you. We’re essentially T minus however many days there are between now and December 25. [Cue cheering from musical theatre geeks and anyone who just wants to hear Hugh Jackman sing “Bring Him Home.”] As any self-respecting French-major would […]
Kafka sur le Rivage
A lot of contemporary novels seem to follow a distressing pattern: They captivate from the very first line with dazzling prose and a “voice” that seems new and fresh, but then the cleverness turns out to be preciousness, and reading becomes a chore; I wish they would end about a hundred pages before they actually […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 