A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by John Oliver and Jill Twiss is my favorite book of the year. If you haven’t read it, order a copy now from Amazon, all the proceeds go to charity. The book tells the story of Mike Pence’s bunny Marlon Bundo, who finds himself in love with a boy bunny. They get married, despite the stink bug (that looks an awful lot like Mike Pence) telling them they couldn’t. The message that…
It’s fitting to end 2018 with the best selling book of the year, Becoming by Michelle Obama. The book is broken up into three parts, the first about her childhood and teenage years through college. This is the part I took the most issue with, as I feel like so much was left out. The reader never got a real view into teenage stumbles or anything that would be considered remotely controversial. Much is made about this book being honest,…
Ordinary People by Diana Evans is a novel that follows the lives of two black couples during a year of marital struggles in London, starting on the eve of the Obama presidency. One couple lives in a crooked, drafty, possibly haunted house which becomes a character all its own; the other couple has moved outside the city to get away from crime and to raise their kids. The four are friends and their lives intersect in ways that are both…
A Separation by Katie Kitamura is a small, taut, suspenseful novel about a woman who has been separated from her cheating husband for six months, but his parents don’t know. Then he goes missing in a small town in Greece and she is called upon to go look for him. As the novel slowly unfolds, Kitamura’s power to draw the reader in with her almost hypnotic prose is on full display. An undeniably smart, well written book, yet also forgettable.
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven, is a novel about a young woman named Lilia who moves from place to place and has never learned to settle down, ever since her father took her away from her mother when she was a young girl and they spent years on the run. St. John Mandel is a brilliantly original writer, I was mesmerized by this story of a lost young woman searching for truth…