BOOKLOVES

You finally decided to read that book. Only problem is: it’s loud. Your kids are running around playing My Little Pony. A movie is on. You’re at the coffee shop because you thought it sounded romantic and wanted to separate yourself from the distractions on your phone. And the guy next to you is chatting […]

Any group that has read Steinbeck’s 1952 novel before coming to the East of Eden Netflix adaptation reaches the same sticking point: Cathy Ames does not behave like a person. She is introduced by a narrator who announces, in his own voice, that some children arrive malformed in the soul the way others arrive malformed […]

Before the Joads have left Oklahoma, a man who used to be a preacher tells Tom what he worked out in the wilderness. He went looking for his own soul and could not find one that belonged to him. What he found instead was a fragment of something much larger. “Maybe all men got one […]

Synopsis: Never hook-up with a woman from Landmere, and under no circumstances do you sleep with your best friend’s little sister. Firefighter Elijah Barnett had easy rules when it came to women. Then Dr. Georgia Cross came home. She’s sunshine wrapped in scrubs and managed to get under Elijah’s skin within five minutes of meeting […]

In January a book club of eight agreed to read twelve books together across the year. They chose the first three at the meeting, put them in a group chat, and felt pleased. By early October they have finished four, the chat has gone quiet on the subject, and nobody has raised it since July, […]