Archive for May, 2010

May 18, 2010 0

Memories Of Hailsham Edition

By Some Dude in Fiction, Novel

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro [Please note that this review does include spoilers.] I went into this year with a New Year’s reading resolution: I was going to make it a point to primarily read fiction from the last decade. I started out by reading Susan Gregg Gilmore’s Looking For Salvation At The [...]

May 2, 2010 0

The Escapist Edition

By Some Dude in Fiction, Novel

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon “Forget about what you are escaping from [...] Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.“ The above quote is so central to Michael Chabon’s (pronounced SHAY-bahn, in case you’re wondering) masterful and thoroughly wonderful, Pulitzer Prize winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & [...]