November 2011
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I can always count on HTMLGIANT to ask the tough... →
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Three thoughts for the three Tana French novels:
1. The Likeness ≥ In The Woods > Faithful Place
2. Is it just me or do these books get progressively more Irish? Like the accents? The Guinness? I don’t get it.
3. They all have gaping plot holes but are perfectly pleasant mystery reads when you don’t want to have to think. And I’m always a sucker for that.
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The Books They Gave Me →
To whoever began this particular project, it is absolutely wonderful.
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The books somehow made him smaller, not larger, as if they were whispering,...
– James Wood in Shelf Life: Packing up my father-in-law’s library
Y’all, if (when) I die, please don’t let James Wood write about my personal history and library for The New Yorker.