A Visit from the Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan
This is a fun story of life in, around, and tangentially related to the music industry in the USA, a few years ago before the Internet changed everything. It’s told in a series of (initially) separate narratives of different characters, … Continue reading
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim — David Sedaris
These stories are clever and funny. The book makes me think of a grown-up version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, without the pictures. Actually that probably makes it sound far less good than it really is. Continue reading
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Roots of Empathy — Mary Gordon
Roots of Empathy is a program that tries to teach schoolchildren empathy. Empathy is a crucially important quality: it can help overcome the problem of the “ethical fade“. And it seems obvious that empathic people are probably just nicer people. … Continue reading
The Fall Of Light — Sarah Laing
I like this book. It has a story to make you happy and sad, pictures to make you wonder, and themes to make you think. Sarah Laing is a cartoonist as well as a writer — I knew of her … Continue reading