Meghan Daum accumulates house and apartment addresses like another 33-year-old would accumulate boyfriends or shoes. It's an obsession she explores in her new memoir, "Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House." This Los Angeles Times columnist writes with a breezy, amusing style that's thoroughly enjoyable.
Month: May 2010
Once lost, now the 1970 winner is found
The winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize, awarded to a novel published in 1970, was announced last week. It's the first book of J. G. Farrell's Empire Trilogy.
Be confident, be creative
I read about this new book on creativity and drawing while trolling the Web. I bought it immediately. Impulse purchase? Maybe, but I'm looking forward to reading it. You can check out the first 33 pages on the publisher's Web site.
Vampire booze
Here's my excuse for why I haven't finished Grahame-Smith's best-selling vampire novel about Abraham Lincoln.
Jerry Gabriel’s “Drowned Boy”
How this collection of linked short stories found its way to my reading table.
My ADD book collecting habit
On the eve of moderating a panel about book collecting, a personal reality check in that area. Plus, my Faulkner first edition (in spanish).
Is Rusty Sabich innocent again?
"Presumed Innocent" by Scott Turow published in 1987 was a #1 New York Times bestseller, remaining on the list for 45 weeks. Turow has written the sequel "Innocent," with Rusty Sabich again at the center of a murder trial. It's smart, absorbing courtroom drama.
The Longest Chapter 