I’m about a month late for the Global Voices Book Challenge, where their wide world network of bloggers posted about “a book from a country whose literature [they had] never read anything of before.” Since I rarely follow directions anyway, I chose to read Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth, a collection of fictional short stories presumably [...]

My sister Kat and I are reading at least one book every month in 2009 together. Next month: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Join us– The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank My review rating: 3 of 5 stars If nothing else, former lovers should give good fodder for brunch conversations. Laughter (and mimosas and cosmopolitans) mitigates [...]

This review is also on Goodreads, a community site for nerds who liked writing book reports in third grade and still do. These are my people. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig rating: 3 of 5 stars Larry Lessig beckons us in his new book, Remix, to think [...]