2015 Book #9: The Long Home
After spending some time with Andy Weir on Mars (and after slogging through the weirdness of Still Life with Woodpecker), I wanted to read something a bit more mundane. I’d never heard of The Long Home or William Gay, but Goodreads thought I’d like it since I love Larry Brown and the library happened to have a […]
2014 Book #45: Joe
After I finished Facing the Music last year, I didn’t see myself becoming a huge Larry Brown fan. That short story collection is good enough, but it’s not spectacular and no way near as intriguing as the man himself. Joe, though! Joe is a great novel, and now I’m entirely won over. (Could you tell from the TWO Larry […]
2013 Book #42: Facing the Music
Larry Brown has been on my radar for a few months, thanks to my friend Jacob, who clued me into a Youtube preview of a documentary about him. I was intrigued: Here’s this guy from the sticks of Mississippi, a firefighter, who sits down one day and decides to become a writer. He claims a […]