Blog: Books

1 Goal Down…

July 26th, 2009

Tanning on a lounge chair in my backyard, I finally finished my summer reading goal. My third book was Twins by Marcy Dermansky, a novel about – you guessed it – twins. Physically beautiful, psychologically damaged, identical twins, to be exact. Read more…

Posted in Books | Comments Off

Life Lessons

July 2nd, 2009

In a few days, my third month of summer break will officially begin. Sadly, all I have to show for these past couple of months is that I am finally two-thirds of the way finished with my summer reading goal. After reading partway through a few novels, I finally settled on one that didn’t bore me half to death.

Love & Other Recreational Sports by John Dearie is a fiction novel told from the perspective of a thirty-five-year-old single male living alone in Manhattan. This is one of the most entertaining books I’ve read in a while, and to my surprise, it wasn’t totally predictable. This novel is witty, realistic, and frankly, it’s my kind of book.

From the novel, I pulled out several theories that were either reassuring or eye-opening. A few of these theories were ideas I had already come to terms with; the others were new and refreshing. But all of them I agree with, one hundred percent. Read more…