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 http://kthread.com [...]

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 beginning [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]