A Country of Cities makes an unconquerable argument and plants mental seeds you’ll want to grow.

My review of White Teeth is colored by its reputation. Where I was expecting an insightful novel, I instead found a beach read. Perhaps it’s a rather insightful beach read, but a beach read nonetheless.

A book clearly done by a hyperactive mind (and I mean that in the best of ways), the earthquake room is structured to make you think and written to make you reflect.

Rare is the book that deserves a movie, but the world artfully created in Infomocracy belongs in the cinema (but hopefully never reality).

O Pioneers! is one of those books I was assigned but never did read, but the reading of it now showed me exactly why it was assigned. It is a solid piece of early American literature, perfect for a school reading.

Woman on the Edge of Time distinguishes itself as the toe dip into the utopian (or, depending on how you look at it, dystopian) genre that is driving me to leap in headfirst.

While Ghost Fleet is definitely not a balm for the reader’s anxiety, the extensive research behind the work’s intricate and multilayered plot is evident and the product impressive.

I’m quite enamored of Donna Tartt now, having hardly set The Goldfinch down after starting, and very impressed by the undeniable quality of her writing.

Already Dead is, to someone unfamiliar with Denis Johnson’s work, a dizzying and intoxicating world into which one cannot help but to fall.

Denton Little’s Deathdate is another case of my not knowing what I was getting myself into, with a clever plot but it’s definitely YA.