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Book Review: Towelhead
I first heard of Towelhead when I caught a trailer for the Alan Ball-directed film adaptation of Alicia Erian’s novel. The trailer looked like a sweet (perhaps a little bittersweet) coming-of-age story with moments of dark humor. The book is all of these things, but I was not at all prepared for exactly how disturbing it would be, or how utterly sad.
Book Review: Certain Girls
When I was first introduced to the smart, hilariously sassy Cannie Shapiro in Jennifer Weiner's Good in Bed, I felt like I'd made a friend. She's clever, outspoken, fun and talented, though she also, like many of us, struggles with her weight and her feelings of self-worth. Thus, I was delighted to find out that we get a continuation of Cannie's story in Certain Girls — and this time there's another voice talking: Cannie's now-13-year-old daughter, Joy.
Book Review: One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
As you know, we've been paying a lot of attention to weddings this season on the Sugar Network. This week, we're wrapping up our coverage by talking about what happens when the honeymoon's over and the newlyweds begin their lives together.
Of course, one of the things the happy couple might be doing upon their return home is paying the wedding bills.
Book Review: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
I'm excited about a lot of the movies premiering at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, and Suburban Girl is near the top of my list. It's based on two of the short stories from Melissa Bank's collection The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, which was one of my favorite books when it came out in 1999. It had been a while since I'd read the book, so with the movie looming, I decided to drag my old paperback off the shelf and see if the book still holds up.Book Review: Little Children by Tom Perrotta
Little Children didn't win the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay; that honor went to The Departed, which was merely adapted from another film script. But translating Tom Perrotta's novel to the screen is almost as much of a no-brainer: This book was just made to be made into a movie.
Now a critically acclaimed film starring Kate Winslet (who earned an Oscar nod for the role), Little Children pays homage to the adult suburban dystopias imagined by authors like John Cheever and The Ice Storm author Rick Moody.
Book Review: A Long Way Down
Nick Hornby's gift for witty, cinematic prose lends itself to big-screen transformations, and A Long Way Down is no exception. Recently, Warner Brothers announced it would turn the 2005 novel into a movie produced by Johnny Depp. If you haven't had a chance to read this slightly sinister but hilarious novel, now's the perfect time, since the launching point for the whole sordid plot begins on New Year's Eve, when four strangers find themselves scheming to plunge to their deaths from the same London skyscraper.
Book Review: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
There have been plenty of books narrated by wise teenage girls, but it's possible there's never been a protagonist quite so literary as Blue Van Meer. The voice of Marisha Pessl's debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Blue was raised on books and black-and-white movies in random small towns across America while her professor father jumped from college to college. She's socially awkward and generally too smart for her own good, but her research skills serve her well when she's thrust into the center of a mystery that only she can unravel.
Book Review: The Time Traveler's Wife
Though having completed "only one" novel, Audrey Niffenegger has achieved with The Time Traveler's Wife what many veteran authors have not even achieved through a collection of works: a solid, thorough, well-researched, and gorgeously told love story. She weaves the lives of Henry and Claire, a couple destined to be together throughout their entire lives, as Henry, due to a genetic quirk, defeats the confines of time and space, shuttling back and forth between his past and present. The concept is not easy to sum up quickly, but once the reader understands what Henry does, it is impossible to doubt that this is a reality.
CD Review: Sufjan Stevens "Songs for Christmas"
Sufjan Stevens began writing and recording these Christmas tunes in 2001, in effort to combat the fear and sadness permeating the holiday atmosphere after September 11. He made CDs of the music to send to friends and family, complete with stickers and funny cartoons in the package. Since people liked the gifts so much, he continued to send out new CDs every year.
Book Review: Holidays on Ice
Because he is one of my favorite authors, it surprises me how many people still don't know about the awesome hilarity that is David Sedaris. If you’ve never read anything by him, Holidays on Ice is a great introduction, and if you’re already a fan, now is a great time to revisit some of his older (and seasonal) work.
In this collection of essays, Sedaris alternates between his own dark and funny non-fiction and purely fictional holiday-themed humor.
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