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  • Book Review: Needful Things

    Needful Things by Stephen King. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Needful Things is the story of a new shop that opens in a small town in Maine, and the subsequent events that unfold around the customers and the residents of the town as the proprietor of the shop begins to do business. The setting…

  • Book Review: My Legendary Girlfriend

    My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. My Legendary Girlfriend is the story of Will, a hopeless romantic who is still trying to get over being dumped by the love of his life three years before. The book is set over the course of a single weekend, and is a…

  • Book Review: On Writing

    On Writing: A Memoir by Stephen King. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. On Writing is exactly what it says in the sub-title: a memoir. But it’s more than that. While the first third of the book recounts key events in King’s life that perhaps make him the writer he is, the second two thirds…

  • Book Review – Who Moved My BlackBerry?

    Who Moved My Blackberry? by Lucy Kellaway. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Who Moved My BlackBerry is the hilarious story of Martin Lukes and his struggle to reach the top of the corporate ladder and become “22.5 percent better than his bestest”. The book is written entirely as a series of emails from Martin…

  • Book Review – The Funeral Birds

    The Funeral Birds by Paula R.C. Readman. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Funeral Birds is a charming little tale about a private detective who is about to close his agency for good when one last client walks in. I don’t usually read crime fiction, but I found this to be a fun, fast-paced story…

  • Book Review: About a Boy

    About a Boy by Nick Hornby. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. About a Boy is a simple tale about a relatively shallow man in his thirties who thinks he has everything, and a twelve year old boy who is struggling to fit into life at a new school after the separation of his parents.…

  • Book Review: Atlas Shrugged

    Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. My rating: 1 of 5 stars. Atlas Shrugged is a behemoth of a book that doesn’t know what it is. It wants to be a novel, but it also wants to be a vehicle for Rand’s objectivist philosophy. By trying to be both, it fails to be either. For a…