Review: This Is How You Lose Her

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Rat-a-tat-tat. I hear the sound of a cartoon machine gun in my head every time I read Junot Diaz.

There is this ride-along feeling from this book that makes it almost therapeutic. Maybe it's just having Yunior narrate for us (then a sly move to a third personish narrator later in the book which is so very intimate) which feels like a known quantity. It's like an old voice that we can trust. He is the certainty that we crave from our institutions right there on the page.

The language? Coarse, quick and pointed. No doubt. No doubt I can't wait for the next one.




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New work - first chapter

This is something I just posted on Goodreads.

It is the first chapter of a science fiction work I'm currently working on. I'm digging it and it has me excited to see what's going to happen and when. Let me know your thoughts..

https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/349481-level-5---the-antarian-conspiracy

Review: Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Wow. Super great read from a bunch of different angles. I love historical accounts of most kinds (Think Erik Larson - another Seattle guy) and this one doesn't disappoint with its clever weaving of story lines which all coincide beautifully to tell a story of suspense and intrigue that really happened.

Great read, four stars easily.



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Review: Amsterdam

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



A quick and strange read that has its own twist at the end although you don't see it coming necessarily, it doesn't rate up there as the most plausible.

Still, Ian McEwan is worth studying and if I could go 3.5 stars I would for the very fact that he does things with character and place that are hard to beat even though this one ended up less than 4 stars.



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Review: Atonement

Atonement by Ian McEwan

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



I started this book about three times over the last couple of years. Just finished it and wish I never started it so I could read it all over again.

After finishing it I realized why I put it down so many times: act I feels like act II. But now I understand why and it makes the remainder of the book unfold like the wrapping on a piece of candy you have waited for too long. Yummy. 5 stars. I stand by it.



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Quit at your own risk

I went for a run this morning and realized for the first time that the real work doesn't start until someone or something is telling you to quit.

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