Book Sightings

I’m back with another slew of recommendations, so stick around for more. Today, I’m recommending a fine book about sports and how it can be a metaphor for life. I just finished reading this amazing piece of literature, and if you haven’t spent any time with this book, it’s time you caught up, it’s epic. [...]

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For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.”
As a result, more emphasis is placed on [...]

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The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.
Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan’s social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called [...]

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Award-winning writer Maile Meloy’s return to short stories explores complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers.
Meloy’s first return to short stories since her critically acclaimed debut, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It is an extraordinary new work from one of the most promising [...]

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Author Sherman Alexie was recently on the Colbert Report, and he knocked it out of the park. He touches on book piracy, and how reading culture is dying faster than anyone realizes.

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The New York Times top 10 list of 2009 is out and you’re going to love it. You should definitely check out these books, because next year they will most likely not make much of a splash. Well, I guess if they make movies out of them.
Here are the best fiction books:
Both Ways Is [...]

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Today I found out about this super rad book. Yes, I just used the words “super rad” as a superlative of sorts. This book sounds like something that many different people will love. This story began with Jake Adelstein asking the question: “How does a Yakuza crime boss get a liver transplant without doing something [...]

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Bam Margera has penned a new book about his life up to this point and it’s gaining some popularity. Bam Margera is a professional skateboarder and overall crazy kid with a knack for making music videos, and so much more. Check out this new book “Serious as Dirt” by Bam Margera and check out [...]

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You may have remembered me posting about a news piece where parents and faculty were trying to get Sherman Alexie’s award winning novel banned from the required reading list. Well, out of another field comes yet another stupid story about someone trying to ban books. This time it’s even worse.
The Black Dossier by Alan [...]

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In a new feature to keep this site form growing too stale I’ll be posting news and thoughts on the world of reading. So here we go.
A library book 51 years overdue came back to the library. The significance of this story lies in the fact that it wasn’t just one book, although my [...]

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