Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides rating: 4 of 5 stars About a month ago, online buzz surrounded a “gender analyzer” tool designed to determine whether a Web site was written by a man or a woman. I was reminded of the flurry of indignation and amusement caused by the tool (on my personal site: “We guess [...]

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell rating: 3 of 5 stars I think of Malcolm Gladwell books as a sophisticated guilty pleasure. He Who Must Name Patterns is the darling of airport bookstores (which I think amuses him; there is a part on airplane crashes in Outliers that is difficult to read on a flight, similar to [...]

I’ve posted the below review on the Goodreads site; of all the spooky literature I crave in October, this play might be my favorite. Proof: A Play by David Auburn My review on Goodreads rating: 4 of 5 stars “Proof” is ideal for the witching hours of the night, when you cannot sleep, idly flip [...]

I’ve joined the Goodreads book community, and I may post a review on kthread from time to time. Below is the first review I’ve written for the site, which is a very active community of readers and reviewers. Let me know if you’d like me to send the book to you now that I’ve finished [...]