By Margaret Atwood
Read: August 2009
Rating: Nonnegotiable
The whole time I was reading this I wondered why none of my writing classes assigned us to read it.
Margaret Atwood is one of the Big Ones. She’s made her mark on modern literature, and at least some of her books will still be considered worth reading and studying a [...]

The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World’s Best-Loved Books
By Jenny Bond and Chris Sheedy
Read: May 2009
Rating: Nifty
What is it? A bunch of short article/chapters about famous authors, and their famous books–and what made the authors write those books.
This is a nice little book to browse through between longer projects. At first I had my [...]

By Noah Lukeman
Read: July 2008
Rating: Ponderous
Apologies to Mr. Lukeman, ‘ponderous’ is not the right word.
Last week Sreya and I were in B&N, and this was one of the books on the bargain shelf. We split the cost, and have been looking through it. We spent an enjoyable few hours in the food court reading the [...]